So friends, welcome to Rough Life. What a week
it has been, but before we get into all the sad
stuff, can I just take a moment to say, did you
notice anything different at the start of this
podcast? That's right, your girl got monetized.
Can you even believe it? I got monetized. I cannot
believe it. We have ads and like I know it's
a pain in the butt. I fast forward through all
the ads when I listen to other podcasts. It's
so annoying. But guys, we are one step closer
to me being able to quit my job. So that I can
do my job for free. So that more of the money
will go to the puppies. So. Please, please, please
keep listening, share it with a friend or the
adopter of your foster, pass it on to them so
they'll hear the background story about the animals.
Comment if you're listening on Spotify, leave
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are making a huge difference. And I am so, so,
so thankful and so excited. Oh, my goodness.
It only took like three years. OK. I have been
dreading this episode. It has been another round
of playing foster coordinator and transport coordinator
while Melissa, our actual foster coordinator,
finishes up her month of vacations. The foster
coordinator part of me had a great week, very
little stress, things were great, so thank you
so much to all of you for that because you guys
were all amazing this round. The ****TRANSPORT!!**** coordinator
part of me almost quit, almost had a nervous
breakdown, and almost just took a whole box of
Benadryl so she would sleep until the whole week
was over. No, I'm exaggerating, but it has been
a really tough week, so. I think the last time
we talked, Wiggle had just broken with Parvo
and we held the rest of the litter back from
transport because they were all breaking too.
So if you missed that episode, you don't need
to, I mean, you're welcome to listen to the last
episode, but this was a litter of Pyrenees doodles
that were supposed to go on the last transport
that we ended up holding back because we suspected
distemper. and then they eventually broke with
Parvo right before transport. I want to preface
this by saying it has been years, literal years,
I think even before COVID, since we have lost
a puppy to Parvo. We've had puppies die 100 %
don't get me wrong, but we lose way more to coccidia
or worms than we do to Parvo. Dr. Burton honestly
has mastered the Parvo protocol and it is not
nearly as scary of a diagnosis as it used to
be until this year. Parvo is, it's kind of like
the flu or I guess even a little like COVID too,
where every year the strain is a little bit different.
So this year's Parvo strain is a whole different
beast. We treat all of our parvo puppies at our
homes, me, my mom, and Jessica, because honestly,
we're better at it than our local vets. And that
sounds crazy and I get that, I hear it. But you
have to think, the majority of the people down
here are getting their puppies for free from
the side of the road or in their own backyard.
So they don't even take them to the vet. if they're
sick, to find out what they're sick with, let
alone leave them at the vet clinic to be treated
for thousands of dollars. Like in their mind,
they'll just go to the Walmart parking lot and
get another puppy when this one dies. It's not
a big deal. So we have had more parvo puppies
in our care and we have Dr. Burton on call literally
24 -7 if we have any questions at all. So we
typically say with Typical parvo that by day
four you're either dead or you're over it like
period that's literally my entire Rescue career
that's how it's been day four is when they usually
start to round the corner perk up Maybe start
eating again, but definitely start drinking again
for sure so My mom had these parvo puppies. She
woke up the morning of day four thinking we made
it, it's day four, they were already looking
better last night, she was like I bet they'll
start eating by the end of the day and this whole
stressful situation will be over. So you cannot
even fathom the devastation, the heartbreak,
the overall shock to her core that she felt when
she found three of her seven puppies dead, like
freshly dead too. So she called me, it's like...
It's like seven o 'clock in the morning, which
I know to some of you guys you're like, oh, that's
a normal time of day This is like for me and
my mom both. This is like middle of the night
7 a .m. Is the middle of the night for us. So
the fact that she was awake treating her parvo
puppies and I just happen to be awake Rolling
over. I don't know why I was awake So she calls
me obviously in hysterics, rightfully so. And
I told her, I'm like, just grab the two that
were still symptomatic, still alive and symptomatic,
take them to the vet, like, just be done with
this. This is when we thought that they might
still have distemper. And this was clearly something
way stronger than we could handle. So she threw
them in the car, flew out to our vet's office
before they had even opened for the day. We hadn't,
let me back up to the distemper, we hadn't distemper
tested them yet because we knew that they were
all breaking with parvo. And so we didn't want
to put them through an hour call ride round trip,
30 minutes there, 30 minutes back, a somewhat
invasive test. It is like their nose, their eyes,
and a blood draw in the neck. So and then it's
just an overall stressful experience when they're
in such a fragile state. So it wouldn't have
changed anything that we were doing in their
treatment. So we just figured, get them over
the four day hump and then we'll take them to
be tested and we'll go from there. Well, since
we were leaving, two puppies at the vet for ICU
treatment, we were like, go ahead and just temper
test them while they're there and like, let's
just figure out everything that they have. So
even our vets were actually slightly surprised
that it came back negative. Things were going
well in the next few days. Her other two puppies
that she still had at her house never broke,
still have never broken. Like they are just happy
and healthy as could be, totally fine, never
got it. the other two that were at the vet were
getting better slightly every day and then wig
was with me getting around the clock care and
seemed like i feel like now hindsight's going
to be but it seemed in the moment that he was
slightly ever so slightly improving however i
started to get slightly worried when we passed
day four and then day five and then day six and
wig was not recovered like there was no bounce
back nothing he wasn't necessarily getting worse
but he was absolutely not anywhere near out of
the woods he wasn't even walking closer to the
end of the woods so on night six i posted a desperate
plea and the foster group just begging for prayers
for him i could tell that this was not a normal
case of parvo and i was just I was so sick to
my stomach, so heartbroken at the thought of
me going to bed that night and having him die
alone in his crate. Like I don't know what it
was. I've never had that feeling before. Like
I've had hundreds, maybe not hundreds, a hundred
Parvo puppies. I don't know if it's because we
now live in a bigger home. I don't know what
it was. I just, I could not shake it. I could
not go to bed and think. What if he's dead and
he died alone? So I Set my alarm every three
hours just to be sure and would get up and give
him more meds and fluids throughout the night
I was so surprised and very relieved when he
was still alive the next morning, but a few hours
later I noticed a change in his breathing and
on day seven of this Terrible horrible no good
very bad parvo case. I held my sweet baby wiggy
as he took his last breath I was really devastated,
I was, but I can't even put into words the peace
and the comfort that it brought me that he was
able to die with me in my arms, wrapped up in
a blanket, swaddled. Because now that I'm a real
mom, I know how to swaddle. But he was with me,
he wasn't alone. He didn't die in his crate alone
overnight, or even worse, alone at that shelter
that I pulled him from. Since he was the last
one to break with Parvo from his litter, we thought
we were in the clear then, like we're good. I
mean, we're not good. This is traumatizing, but
like everyone else is going to be fine. But the
next morning, the vet called us and said that
one of the puppies there, who he actually thought
was fine to go home the day before and discharged
him, but none of us were able to get there before
closing to get him. So we just left him there
for the weekend, had taken a dramatic turn for
the worse. One really, really great thing about
our vets is after working with them so closely
for so many years, they know, they just already
know that we want them to throw the book at every
animal, no matter what, spare no expense, wolf
trap will cover it, just save the animal at all
cost every time. Very very very rarely Do we
ever euthanize just because we think a dog is
gonna die anyways because literally like we'll
try anything if it might You know keep them alive
So they know we want to try every Hail Mary possible
before we throw in the towel And so we knew it
was bad bad when he called us on Saturday morning
day freaking ten for this puppy because this
puppy was one of the first ones that broke and
Told us that he was certain 100 % that this puppy
would be dead by the end of the day and that
it was Truly horrific watching it suffer in agony.
He said we have done absolutely everything we
can possibly do But really honestly the most
humane thing right now would be to euthanize
it So I called dr. Burton Because no matter who
I talk to, no matter what we decide, I hang up
and I call Dr. Burton always. So I'm like, hang
on while I talk to Dr. Burton. So and I just
kept thinking like maybe on the off chance she
would be like, oh, well, like I read about, you
know, if you stand on your head for five minutes,
the puppy slip, you know, like some random bizarre
thing that we'd be like, oh, we didn't try that.
Let's try it real quick. And it would like save
its life. So no, unfortunately. I called her
and she said I rattled off all the things they
had tried and she said, it sounds like it's gone
to the puppy's brain, which I didn't even know
Parvo could do. And she agreed after hearing
everything they had already done that euthanizing
was the best thing. Oh. We are just so absolutely
gutted by all this, but this puppy, this specific
puppy, should have been almost a full week post
parvo in recovery, like totally fine, and it
died on day 10. Literally, that's unheard of,
like actually unheard of. And as selfish as this
sounds, and I know, I know how it sounds. it
actually helped my heart a little bit. I don't
know what is going on with me with wiggle. Like,
I don't know if it's because I'm a mom now. I
have all these emotions and hormones that I didn't
used to have, but oh my goodness, it really gutted
me that I lost wiggle. And it really helped my
heart knowing that this vet who is a phenomenal
vet, who I trust with my own personal heart,
like, he's been a vet longer than i've been alive
and he couldn't save this puppy i just i cannot
shake the feeling that i failed wiggle or i didn't
do his treatment right you know because i haven't
had a sick foster since i got pregnant with mary
sue and like was i rusty like did i did i miss
something but uh it's just a a brutal, unforgiving
monster of a parvo strain this year. We lost
five out of eight of those puppies. Like that's,
oh my gosh, we've never had that poor of an outcome.
So that was Saturday. So that was Saturday and
on Monday. We picked up the last surviving puppy
that was being treated there. I have it with
me now on Tuesday they called us and they said
two puppies had been dumped in their play yard
overnight and asked if we could take it we were
like listen We can't do anything right now. We
are so frazzled It's gonna be a few days, but
like if you'll leave them there for a few days.
We'll get them on Friday So they're like yeah,
totally that's fine so on Friday One of Jessica's
foster puppies started to seem just like kind
of sickly. So she did a parvo test It was negative,
but the thing about parvo is they can start Acting
like they have parvo before they are shedding
the parvo and will test positive for the parvo
So like you can test a parvo puppy and it will
test negative Because like it the body hasn't
even realized it has parvo yet So we thought,
maybe you just tested it too early. So she did
another parvo test a little while later, both
negative. She was like, well, I've got to go
to the vet. Anyways, I'll take it with me. I'll
get a fecal done. We'll figure out what's going
on when I pick up these other two puppies to
take to the doghouse, leave overnight. And they're
going to go on transport in the morning. So at
the vet, they're like, let's do another parvo
test. And third time's the charm, I guess. It
was positive. We literally are all still so Shell
shocked and honestly struggling with a little
PTSD. So she just decided to leave the puppy
there over the weekend for treatment, but This
is like so crazy to me Okay, we dropped off two
puppies. We picked up one puppy. They got two
puppies dumped that they held for us We picked
up two puppies. We left one puppy like it is
just a never -ending revolving door of puppy
shuffling right now. Oh and so So annoying. Those
two puppies that Jessica picked up and was gonna
take to the dog house, she called me saying there's
no way they can go on transport tomorrow. I already
know you're gonna say no. They're covered in
ringworm. Like, oh my gosh. So in a span of about
10 minutes, I lost seven puppies from my transport
that I had to find replacements for with less
than 24 hours before the van left. Oh my gosh.
So stressful. But we got it done. And it actually
so we. Replace them parva transport math is so
bizarre. We ended up replacing Everybody that
got cut with two extra puppies that weren't even
in the queue to begin with so it all worked out
We ended up sending even more animals than we
thought we were gonna be able to but man. Oh
my goodness everything right now has parvo or
ringworm or both and our nerves are Shot. Oh
my goodness, and this is already like the length
of a normal episode. This is a really long intro,
and if you're new here, it's not usually this
long or depressing, but I like to be as transparent
with y 'all as possible. I like to keep it real
so that you know what it's really like down here
for the animals and the animal rescuers, and
it's not always. Sunshine and rainbows although
actual transport itself today was a breeze literally
one of the best smoothest and easiest transports
we've had maybe ever Like really so that was
really nice and very much appreciated Okay on
to The real stories. Oh, oh, but wait, okay So
before I start with the animals that were on
the van, I want to cover the cosmic litter So
if you are fostering Stardust or any of the puppies
that are named after the planets, they are from
North Carolina. They were actually brought to
Wolf Trap several weeks ago. They stayed with
one foster family until they were old enough
to all be split up. So that's why they're all
coming to intake when you guys are hearing this.
so that we can divide them into separate fosters.
We really don't have any information about them
or where they came from or what happened. But
they were going to be euthanized at the shelter
that they were at in North Carolina. So they
reached out to us to see if we could take them.
And of course, we were happy to. OK. As for the
animals that are on the van coming from Mississippi,
they are all Love Island themed. Shout out to
our wonderful and lovely Ariel for doing all
the names for me for this theme. But because
she was so excited about this theme and because
I've heard so much about this show on social
media, I was like, OK, Justin, like we need to
start watching this show so that I know what
I'm talking about when I do the podcast. So.
We started season five because we live in Florence,
Alabama And there's a guy from here that was
on that season that people around here talk about
all the time, you know, like local celebrity
So we started watching it last night and he immediately
I was like, this is a terrible show It's nasty.
It's dumb. Like why do people watch this turn
this off? I'm done with this show And I was on
episode nine when Justin had to physically peel
me off the couch and drag me to bed at like 2
a .m. this morning. So I'm definitely not a fan,
but I am addicted. I will admit it is very addicting.
So we'll see. We'll see if I'm a fan by the end
of the season. Okay, on to the real stories for
real. Podcast episode starts now. Villa was picked
up by animal control and taken to the kill shelter.
She was in an elderly man's yard. Animal control
was very quick to say that it was right at the
county line but still technically in the city
limits. He said that another 50 feet though at
the very next house and that puppy would have
been on its own. So ridiculous. Love Island is
one of those stories that I will never forget.
We live in a very small town. Our town has a
dentist who everyone loves and adores, myself
included, his whole family. I went to school
with his children, I tutored his son, I've been
to his office countless times. He even did my
bonding on my teeth for free because we love
each other. Literally, I love his family. They're
just an all around great family. or so I thought.
One of the office ladies who I also know and
love dearly and have when when I lived there
went to church with for like 15 years. She messaged
us this week saying that a young stray puppy
wandered up to the dentist's home during the
night and he came into the office and said if
it was still at his house when he got home from
work he was gonna shoot it and kill it. So of
course all of the office ladies are frantically
trying to figure out who could go and get it
and they live out in the county so animal control
wouldn't go so they asked us but i mean we were
in literal crisis mode this is i think it was
like an hour after we found out jessica's puppies
have parvo and the replacements have rain weren't
like crisis mode so we're like listen it's gonna
be like 24 to 48 hours before we have a foster
that can even go and get it let alone keep it
so the receptionist said he doesn't have that
kind of time like he's going to kill him tonight
and here's the part of the story where i need
you to To trust that you know me and Jessica
well enough to know that if there was even so
much as a Hard top crate in the corner of a closet
in either of our homes We we would have gone
to get this puppy like if we thought at all possible
That we could take on this but like we would
have stopped what we were doing and gone to get
it We were so frazzled with what we were already
dealing with There was no way that we could,
especially in good conscience, bring a healthy
puppy to any of our homes right now. Like all
three of us had Parvo. Typically, I know this
is going to be shocking to some of you. I am
the one to spout off something true and valid,
but blunt and snippy back to people who say things
like this to us. But this time out of nowhere,
Jessica. replied with, we have sick puppies and
kittens coming out of our ears right now and
about 50 others that we're trying to get ready
for transport this weekend. We cannot do anything
immediately. Please tell him, really, please
tell him that I said please do not shoot this
poor defenseless puppy that is just trying to
survive. I realize that it takes a little bit
of work to be a decent human being in this situation,
but I believe that he is the means to do so.
Listen, when Jessica snaps, Jessica snaps. And
in the moment, maybe for the first time ever,
I got to experience what it's like to be the
good cop for once. So long story short, we really
were going to wait until everyone left on transport
to figure out what to do with this puppy. We
were not gonna go back on our word after that,
but. after everything that I was planning to
send either broke with Ringworm, Parvo, or both,
I ended up having enough room and enough fosters
to take this puppy this weekend. So Jessica wrote
the lady back the next afternoon and asked if
he had killed the puppy yet, and she's like,
uh, no, he still has it. So we got on transport
the next day. And this is just my own personal
thoughts, but I am convinced that Villa and Love
Island are litter mates. If you're not fostering
these guys, go look at my post on the fosters
page. They're the very first two puppies. They
look identical. I hope whoever adopts them will
do one of those DNA tests where like the relatives
get listed. I just think it's so bizarre. It
cannot be a coincidence that two eight week old
boxer mixes with mangy skin show up on the same
day in a small town. There's no way. Do Bits
Society, listen I'm too new to Love Island to
know what that means. Do Bits Society is the
sibling to the A litter from last week from the
oceans transport. Basically a house out in the
county just has a slew of dogs that keep reproducing
even though they have rescue offers to help all
the time. The first two puppies snuck away to
the neighbor's house. The owner agreed to surrender
them to the neighbor. The neighbor gave them
to us. This puppy also ended up wandering over.
There is one more puppy left from that litter.
We are hoping it will wander over and they'll
surrender it too, but you just never know. Nickelandria?
I think that's how you say it. Nickelandria is
yet another FedEx delivery. A FedEx driver actually
saw him coming out of a culvert on a gravel road,
caught him and delivered him to our foster's
home. The G letter of two were found at a job
site. Our rescue partner Tasha's dad lays bricks
and he called her saying that they had been there
for a week and that they were starting to get
in the way of their work. The age litter of four
came from a lady who had 13 dogs, including these
four puppies. She got sick and was in the hospital
for a couple months, during which time she lost
her job and her vehicle got repossessed. Fortunately,
all of her dogs are now in rescue and these four
were the last four to find a rescue. The A litter
of four were owner surrenders. The owner's dog
got pregnant supposedly by the neighbor's Australian
Shepherd, but I have my doubts. They look like
yellow labs. They gave most of the litter away.
Maybe those were the Australian Shepherd ones,
but then they called us to take these four when
no one else would take them. The M litter of
four, Lord have mercy, we have pulled at least
three generations of dogs from this house. The
first time we went there, the dogs were literally,
physically, not even being dramatic, killing
each other, fighting to the death over food because
they had none. So between us and Mother Nature,
we finally got them down to just four adult dogs
and we spayed and neutered all of them. Somehow,
this lady has ended up with a fifth dog not long
after we got the last one spayed or neutered.
Anyways. The lady texted us a couple weeks ago
that she was out of food. We keep her supplied
with dog food. And she said she also has eight
puppies that she needed us to take. It's never
easy dealing with this lady. And Jessica is the
only one that she will deal with and only sometimes.
Like, I know, I know that I joke a lot about
how terrible people are down here, but I think
that this woman is actually literally bipolar
or has multiple personalities. Some days she
just absolutely worships the ground Jessica walks
on and is so thankful for everything that we
do for us or do for her. Some days she threatens
Jessica with her gun if she ever comes to her
house again. So you just you really don't know
what version of her that you're going to get.
So the day she texted us, Jessica went to get
the eight puppies, hoping that she would be her
sweet, friendly self. When Jessica got there,
she said she was only going to give us six and
was adamant. that she was going to keep the other
two herself, despite the fact that we are the
only reason any of her dogs have any food to
eat as it is. So Jessica says she, quote unquote,
channeled her inner Katie and told her it was
all eight or none. So she goes back in the house
and she and her husband start yelling at each
other, just fighting back and forth. She comes
back to the door, tells Jessica, none, cusses,
slams the door. Jessica leaves. It's not the
first time that she's cussed her out over the
dogs that she has begged us for help with so
it's no biggie. She and Jessica text back and
forth for a couple more days and she ended up
telling us that she actually only has six puppies
left. she gave one away to a friend um that came
by to visit her on her way through the area.
It was the friend's son's birthday and she didn't
have anything to give him so she gave the lady
one of the puppies and then her husband who we
had believed to be dead this whole time because
that's what she originally told us took one of
the puppies. So stupid weak Jessica. Ended up
going back a few days later and was like fine.
We'll just take six puppies I was annoyed, but
whatever I don't like to give in I want the whole
litter She actually ended up giving Jessica seven
puppies, though, because a friend had brought
the one puppy back because it wouldn't be quiet
in the hotel room. So this time she greeted Jessica
with a great big hug, thanked her for being such
a wonderful person and everything she does for
her. And then today, day of transport, she texted
us and told us that her husband wants to surrender
the eighth puppy after all. So Jessica is like,
great. I'll come get it right now. Is that OK?
And we haven't heard back from her yet. So fingers
crossed that we have the eighth one on the van
for next transport. Oh, and we didn't get the
whole letter, but I don't even care. We will
be spaying this mom for her and praying that
no more animals ever wander into her yard again
so that we can finally be done with her. The
C litter of seven where owner surrenders the
owners have four dogs and a newborn baby And
they just can't handle it anymore So they surrendered
the puppies we're gonna spay the mom because
they wanted to keep her and we're also gonna
spay the older puppy That's still there from
the last litter That is all the puppy stories
As for the cats, again, there are two coming
to transport to go to new fosters. They are from
me. I've already done an episode on them, but
it's been quite a while since we did their episode.
And their Virginia story is actually crazier
than their Mississippi story. So for the fosters
taking home Dutch Bros and Duncan, they were
part of... a litter of eight owner surrenders
back on the April 5th coffee transport. They
got adopted together right away, but the owner
actually messaged us a couple days ago, I guess
it was about a week ago, saying her young child,
very young child, was becoming increasingly aggressive
with the cats to the point that he admitted to
bashing their heads on the floor when no one
was looking. So she thought that she had been
monitoring the situation well enough and like
keeping tabs on everything, but realized when
he admitted to that, that this situation was
escalating instead of getting better. So she
messaged us to surrender them and obviously we
took them back immediately. So they were not
on the vans today, but they are going to new
fosters today. As for the ones that were on the
van today, Unseen Bits came from a house that
has about 12 or so kittens and three moms. They've
been asking us for help with this house for a
couple of months but the kittens are all skittish
and the owners are honestly more skittish than
the cats. They are so difficult to get in touch
with and coordinate with. We've had them literally
scheduled for several transports before and they
will just no call no show without even giving
a reason. So they actually brought one today.
Fire Pit or Arlo is his real name. He is a cat
that we had absolutely no business getting involved
with, but his story made Jessica sad. So then
she sucked me in. The owner got him as a kitten
and a little over a year ago, he started losing
his hair. So she took him to a vet. Now, this
is not our vet. Our vets are wonderful. this
vet isn't known as being the best vet in the
area and May or may not have had his license
taken away from him multiple times for being
caught prescribing drugs to himself multiple
times again allegedly this is all allegedly and
I may or may not have used him to neuter one
of my stray dogs many many many years ago and
He did the surgery on the floor which in his
defense it was a great Pyrenees Great Dane mix
So he was very huge and very heavy but anyways
He did the surgery bare -handed no gloves with
a lit cigarette he was actively smoking and He
let me scrub in on the surgery. This was way
back when I was teaching. So like this is probably
ten years ago So I had to use a sick day in order
to go, you know, take my dog in to do this and
I remember sitting on the floor with him helping
in the surgery thinking Maybe I am smart enough
to get my vet degree. Oh One time I had a puppy
that was seizing I called all the vets No one
was open. So I call him to see what to do and
he said well, you know, I'm leaving the clinic
now We're closed. I'm too tired to wait on you.
So I'll just leave a few syringes full of Valium
on the clinic doorstep for you to get. I live
30 minutes away from his clinic. Like it just
sat on the doorstep. He's hilarious if this was
like a sitcom, but not real life. Like this is
terrifying. Anyways. We don't use him anymore.
And we never really did just for like a few random
things, but he did get hired as a shelter veterinarian
in a nearby town, but he can only do neuters.
He can't do spays on the females because he got
in trouble with his license. Again, I think this
was like the third time. And so he doesn't have
access to the drugs to sedate females because
I guess females need more drugs or heavier duty
drugs. So because of all the trouble he's in,
he can only do males now. I could do, honestly,
I could do a whole episode on him and the stories
that we have about him. But anyways, back to
Arlo's story. The vet saw him and diagnosed him
with ringworm. So she treated it several times.
It never really got better and then would just
come back full force, even worse. So the vet
kept saying, listen, this is just a Chronic case
of ringworm. He's probably gonna have this his
whole life. I don't know what to tell you for
a whole year She kept this cat isolated in her
son's bedroom and her son had to sleep on the
couch because you know ringworm You don't want
your kid to get ringworm For an entire year She
messaged us for help, but we kept telling her
like we don't have any room anywhere for a ringworm
cat Let alone a chronic ringworm cat So finally
she broke Jessica down and Jess was like, listen,
we'll pay for you to go to our vet, a real vet,
and see what they think. So our vet immediately
looked at it, took one look and was like, this
is not ringworm. Who told you this was ringworm?
He said, it looks like it's just allergies and
gave him a shot and some medicine to put on it
and within a week it was gone. Two weeks his
hair was growing back. He was good as new it
has been over two months now It's been quite
a while and the cat is perfect super healthy
looks fantastic made it out of isolation and
cherry on top this lady as one of the sweetest
most appreciative people we have ever pulled
from so we were happy to help her and then The
s litter of six are also from Arlo's owner They
were born to a feral stray cat that lived outside
her building and she brought them all inside
once they were old enough to be weaned. She isn't
supposed to have more than one cat and she already
had two so she would have to hide all of these
cats anytime management would come by and the
last time that they came for something She forgot
to put away all the extra water bowls and the
extra beds, and she got busted for having too
many animals. So she was really afraid that she
was going to get evicted. So once again, she
was very thankful that we were able to help her.
Bombshell showed up at someone's house in town
and was constantly meowing on their porch. The
lady is very allergic and couldn't get close
to the cat to even get a picture of the cat to
tell us. how old or what it even looked like.
So Jessica was like, I'm just gonna go and get
it. And Jessica said she is one of the most clingy
kittens Jessica has ever fostered. Jessica is
our cat fosterer. She said she's a major cuddler
and prefers to sleep with her face directly on
Jess' if Jess will allow it. And that is why
Jess is our cat fosterer, because I could not.
The eye litter of two are from one of our fosters
She heard these kittens showed up at someone's
house and they said that they had several non
cat friendly dogs and People told them that their
dogs would kill the kittens if someone didn't
come get them immediately so that's all the stories
for today this episode went live a little later
than usual because As I was packing up to head
home after transport my sister -in -law called
and said that she was driving home with my two
nephews when they saw a litter of puppies dumped
on the side of the road in a ditch and she was
going to keep going like no problem that's what
she always does. But the boys, my sweet, precious
baby nephews, had an absolute meltdown saying
that they had to rescue them and they couldn't
leave them and they would never forgive her.
So she picked them up, literally just put them
in the backseat of her car in her kid's laps
in their car seats, and was just driving around
until she figured out what to do with them. So
we told her, we don't have anybody available
right now. Transport. Transport's not even like
two minutes down the road. Like we are fried.
But we're like, listen, Jessica and I will call
around. We'll see if we can find somebody that
will take these puppies. Luckily we did. But
then I had to go vaccinate, deworm, and neck
scarred seven. Super skinny super scrawny super
super precious and snuggly puppies before they
could go to their foster and I had Mary Sue with
me and she kept saying oh puppy Over and over
like I know everyone thinks their kids the cutest
but it was really cute So it was a big inconvenience.
I was very tired already dreading the long drive
home, but I am so stinking proud of my little
bitty nephews, clearly the brainwashing is already
starting to work because their parents hate stray
dogs. They hate animals in general. So the fact
that they convinced their mom, they're like four
and six years old, like these are babies, convinced
their mom to stop and pick up these gross puppies
on the side of the road, my work here is done.
Thank you so much for listening friends. Oh my
gosh. I think this is like the longest episode
I've ever done. I'm so sorry I know this one
was a doozy, but we are truly so thankful for
all of you your support your prayers your encouragement
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Let's hope that all five of them make it on the
next transport We need them to It's a rough life,
but someone's got to do it