WEBVTT 00:00:10.509 --> 00:00:15.310 Hello, friends. Welcome to Ruff Life. Well, 00:00:15.630 --> 00:00:20.149 if you listened to last week's episode, I'm doing 00:00:20.149 --> 00:00:23.410 much better. All of our parvo puppies have survived 00:00:23.410 --> 00:00:26.190 since that episode. All of our ringworm is better. 00:00:26.550 --> 00:00:30.760 Things overall are just... brighter and happier 00:00:30.760 --> 00:00:34.539 down here. Plus it's not 111 degrees anymore 00:00:34.539 --> 00:00:36.619 which I feel like always makes things better. 00:00:37.500 --> 00:00:41.060 If you did miss last week's episode, I do encourage 00:00:41.060 --> 00:00:43.740 you to go listen to it specifically if you're 00:00:43.740 --> 00:00:47.640 fostering one of the W puppies especially. They 00:00:47.640 --> 00:00:50.259 have such a horrific story that I won't go too 00:00:50.259 --> 00:00:53.240 deep into in this episode since I did spend about 00:00:53.240 --> 00:00:57.359 20 minutes talking about them last week. I do 00:00:57.359 --> 00:00:59.259 just want to take a second just to talk about 00:00:59.259 --> 00:01:01.960 the upcoming anniversary party that Wolf Trap 00:01:01.960 --> 00:01:05.040 is having. If you missed my post in the foster 00:01:05.040 --> 00:01:09.159 group, we are having a huge mega super fun 10 00:01:09.159 --> 00:01:12.780 year anniversary party on October 12th. Everyone 00:01:12.780 --> 00:01:16.359 is invited, humans, dogs, cats, everybody. But 00:01:16.359 --> 00:01:19.500 we are wanting to have a really successful silent 00:01:19.500 --> 00:01:22.760 auction and raffle prizes to fundraise for the 00:01:22.760 --> 00:01:26.609 next 10 years of Wolf Trap. So if you own a business 00:01:26.609 --> 00:01:29.349 or anything and you want to donate a gift card 00:01:29.349 --> 00:01:31.590 or an item or anything to the fundraiser, that 00:01:31.590 --> 00:01:35.049 would be so, so appreciated. Or someone even 00:01:35.049 --> 00:01:38.329 in the foster group had the idea of people pitching 00:01:38.329 --> 00:01:41.709 in money for like multiple gift cards, either 00:01:41.709 --> 00:01:45.709 for one big silent auction basket or to be used 00:01:45.709 --> 00:01:49.170 as raffle prizes. That is a super awesome, super 00:01:49.170 --> 00:01:54.209 generous idea. Or if you have like a Groomer 00:01:54.209 --> 00:01:56.629 or doggy daycare that you love and trust and 00:01:56.629 --> 00:01:58.930 want to reach out to them To see if they would 00:01:58.930 --> 00:02:02.049 be willing to donate a gift card or free daycare 00:02:02.049 --> 00:02:05.109 days or something everything is a tax write -off 00:02:05.109 --> 00:02:09.150 since we're 501 c3 and Everything will be available 00:02:09.150 --> 00:02:11.770 to bid on in person or online. So you don't even 00:02:11.770 --> 00:02:14.550 have to be present to win Although I do hope 00:02:14.550 --> 00:02:16.150 everyone goes because it sounds like it's gonna 00:02:16.150 --> 00:02:21.719 be really fun and exciting Okay on to the stories. 00:02:21.800 --> 00:02:24.740 The theme for this week is Wiggles. Again if 00:02:24.740 --> 00:02:28.240 you listened to my last two episodes you know 00:02:28.240 --> 00:02:31.240 my sweet precious baby was named Wiggle and we 00:02:31.240 --> 00:02:35.680 fought so hard to save him but couldn't. So I 00:02:35.680 --> 00:02:37.900 was just gonna scrap the whole theme altogether 00:02:37.900 --> 00:02:41.199 when he died but then I brought Wags, his brother, 00:02:41.240 --> 00:02:44.099 home from the ICU when he was discharged and 00:02:44.099 --> 00:02:47.539 we named him Wags the dog after you know the 00:02:47.539 --> 00:02:50.960 dog on Wiggles and then Wigs and wags was just 00:02:50.960 --> 00:02:53.479 so cute together, so instead of just scrapping 00:02:53.479 --> 00:02:56.639 the theme because of Wiggle, we are doing the 00:02:56.639 --> 00:03:00.000 theme in memory of Wiggle, who I know without 00:03:00.000 --> 00:03:01.639 a doubt would have been the best dog whoever 00:03:01.639 --> 00:03:06.840 adopted him ever had. He was a perfect baby angel, 00:03:07.240 --> 00:03:09.960 never made a peep. Always wagged his tail no 00:03:09.960 --> 00:03:12.699 matter how miserable he was feeling. Always gave 00:03:12.699 --> 00:03:15.439 me kisses even when I was jabbing him with needles 00:03:15.439 --> 00:03:17.560 and shoving medicine down his throat just to 00:03:17.560 --> 00:03:21.520 keep him alive a few more hours. So the wiggle 00:03:21.520 --> 00:03:26.039 transport. Dorothy the dinosaur came up to an 00:03:26.039 --> 00:03:28.740 elderly couple's house in a nearby town. They 00:03:28.740 --> 00:03:30.879 took her to the vet and they spent well over 00:03:30.879 --> 00:03:32.659 a hundred dollars getting her everything she 00:03:32.659 --> 00:03:35.479 needed but they just did not want to keep a puppy. 00:03:37.549 --> 00:03:40.349 Lachlan was found as a stray. He was posted on 00:03:40.349 --> 00:03:43.710 Facebook by a girl saying he was in her carport 00:03:43.710 --> 00:03:45.870 and someone tagged one of our rescue partners 00:03:45.870 --> 00:03:49.590 who ran and got him that day. The H litter of 00:03:49.590 --> 00:03:52.389 two were dumped on a back road and posted on 00:03:52.389 --> 00:03:55.270 Facebook as free to a good home if someone would 00:03:55.270 --> 00:03:58.870 go and get them. They were originally a litter 00:03:58.870 --> 00:04:01.889 of three but someone grabbed the third one before 00:04:01.889 --> 00:04:04.050 our rescue partner got out there to get them. 00:04:05.150 --> 00:04:09.270 The F litter of two were found in the play yard 00:04:09.270 --> 00:04:12.710 at our vets office on a weekend. They had to 00:04:12.710 --> 00:04:14.870 have been thrown over the fence for them to be 00:04:14.870 --> 00:04:17.649 in the part that they were in. The vet held on 00:04:17.649 --> 00:04:20.389 to them for the week because we had literally 00:04:20.389 --> 00:04:22.829 nowhere for them to go and everything we had 00:04:22.829 --> 00:04:26.370 was parvo. They're the litter that Jessica picked 00:04:26.370 --> 00:04:29.709 up as she was dropping off her parvo puppy who 00:04:29.709 --> 00:04:34.089 is now the T litter. to be treated in their ICU. 00:04:34.689 --> 00:04:37.209 She picked them up on a Friday thinking that 00:04:37.209 --> 00:04:39.610 they would go on transport the next afternoon 00:04:39.610 --> 00:04:43.449 only to discover that they were covered in ringworm 00:04:43.449 --> 00:04:46.230 and would not be allowed on transport, which 00:04:46.230 --> 00:04:50.089 left us in quite a bind because we can stash 00:04:50.089 --> 00:04:53.209 a puppy or two at the doghouse for a night, you 00:04:53.209 --> 00:04:55.250 know, before transport and it's not a big deal, 00:04:55.370 --> 00:04:58.980 but Puppies really need more attention and care, 00:04:59.060 --> 00:05:01.699 especially when they're undergoing ringworm treatment, 00:05:02.240 --> 00:05:05.899 than we can provide them at the doghouse. And 00:05:05.899 --> 00:05:09.100 because Mama Becky's parvo puppies weren't going 00:05:09.100 --> 00:05:12.920 on transport, and Jessica's parvo puppies weren't 00:05:12.920 --> 00:05:16.240 going on transport, and my parvo puppy wasn't 00:05:16.240 --> 00:05:20.480 going on transport, we had Nowhere for these 00:05:20.480 --> 00:05:24.220 two to go luckily though our rescue partner Tasha 00:05:24.220 --> 00:05:29.459 felt bad for us and Because she also had a litter 00:05:29.459 --> 00:05:32.560 of ringworm puppies who wouldn't be going on 00:05:32.560 --> 00:05:35.759 transport She offered to foster these two for 00:05:35.759 --> 00:05:38.660 us too because really what's two more when you 00:05:38.660 --> 00:05:42.189 already have six that you're treating but All 00:05:42.189 --> 00:05:44.730 of these puppies that I just mentioned that didn't 00:05:44.730 --> 00:05:48.529 get to go last transport are all on today's podcast 00:05:48.529 --> 00:05:53.110 because they are all happy, healthy, and alive. 00:05:54.810 --> 00:05:58.009 The E letter of three came from, this is what 00:05:58.009 --> 00:06:00.709 she said, came from an idiot that was giving 00:06:00.709 --> 00:06:03.730 the whole litter away at four weeks old. There 00:06:03.730 --> 00:06:05.870 were eight of them, but he gave five of them 00:06:05.870 --> 00:06:07.629 away before we could get out there to get them. 00:06:07.750 --> 00:06:10.490 He refused to let them stay with the mama any 00:06:10.490 --> 00:06:13.050 longer than four weeks. They were born and raised 00:06:13.050 --> 00:06:16.370 in the dirt outside and were infested with fleas 00:06:16.370 --> 00:06:20.889 and ringworm when we got them." The W letter 00:06:20.889 --> 00:06:24.689 of three? The whole reason for this theme this 00:06:24.689 --> 00:06:29.079 week is these puppies. I have talked at length 00:06:29.079 --> 00:06:31.800 about these precious precious puppies, this litter 00:06:31.800 --> 00:06:35.620 of eight. So that is, if you're fostering one 00:06:35.620 --> 00:06:37.860 of these you should definitely go listen to these 00:06:37.860 --> 00:06:40.899 episodes, but if you're just interested in the 00:06:40.899 --> 00:06:45.240 story that nearly broke Wolf Trap South, go check 00:06:45.240 --> 00:06:50.079 out the August 9th ocean animal episode and then 00:06:50.079 --> 00:06:54.480 the August 23rd love island episode, but I will 00:06:54.480 --> 00:06:57.699 say these are some of the calmest, sweetest, 00:06:57.920 --> 00:07:01.120 quietest puppies I have ever seen pre and post 00:07:01.120 --> 00:07:04.259 parvo. They are going to be the absolute best 00:07:04.259 --> 00:07:07.019 dogs. And that just makes it even worse that 00:07:07.019 --> 00:07:08.959 so many of them didn't make it because they would 00:07:08.959 --> 00:07:13.910 have been so, so, so, so loved. The a litter 00:07:13.910 --> 00:07:17.009 of three our owner surrenders the mama showed 00:07:17.009 --> 00:07:20.430 up at a pregnant lady's house When she realized 00:07:20.430 --> 00:07:22.689 that the dog was also pregnant she decided to 00:07:22.689 --> 00:07:25.050 let her stay She knew she didn't want to take 00:07:25.050 --> 00:07:28.449 care of puppies and her own newborn baby So she 00:07:28.449 --> 00:07:30.189 decided to surrender the puppies when they were 00:07:30.189 --> 00:07:33.250 about six weeks old She's still deciding if she's 00:07:33.250 --> 00:07:35.449 gonna keep the mom or not, but we will have her 00:07:35.449 --> 00:07:40.069 spayed in the meantime either way The Tea Littera 00:07:40.069 --> 00:07:42.449 5 were found several weeks ago on a dead -end 00:07:42.449 --> 00:07:45.649 road out in the county. They were pretty terrified 00:07:45.649 --> 00:07:47.730 of people at first but slowly started coming 00:07:47.730 --> 00:07:50.810 around. It didn't help that they had ringworm 00:07:50.810 --> 00:07:53.589 and had to be dipped multiple times a week, which 00:07:53.589 --> 00:07:57.069 is traumatic for everyone involved. And then 00:07:57.069 --> 00:07:59.610 one of the girls broke with parvo shortly after 00:07:59.610 --> 00:08:02.529 getting her, so she spent a few days at the vet 00:08:02.529 --> 00:08:06.110 and then the next week she was in isolation in 00:08:06.110 --> 00:08:08.310 Jessica's shed until she was no longer testing 00:08:08.310 --> 00:08:11.350 positive and then she got to go to a new foster. 00:08:11.829 --> 00:08:14.730 The other four were started on preventative meds 00:08:14.730 --> 00:08:17.290 immediately and they never seem to fully break. 00:08:17.670 --> 00:08:21.290 We have had so many parvo puppies and ringworm 00:08:21.290 --> 00:08:25.089 puppies this month, but this litter was actually 00:08:25.089 --> 00:08:30.129 both. They had both parvo and ringworm. The R 00:08:30.129 --> 00:08:32.529 litter of seven were found as strays on a back 00:08:32.529 --> 00:08:34.629 road. I talked about them a little bit at the 00:08:34.629 --> 00:08:37.440 end of last week's episode. There's really nothing 00:08:37.440 --> 00:08:39.500 special about their story. They were just found 00:08:39.500 --> 00:08:43.139 on the side of the road. But what I love most 00:08:43.139 --> 00:08:45.460 about this story and why this will be a litter 00:08:45.460 --> 00:08:49.259 that I remember until the end of time is because 00:08:49.259 --> 00:08:52.440 it was my four and six -year -old nephews who 00:08:52.440 --> 00:08:55.399 pulled these puppies. They saw them in the ditch 00:08:55.399 --> 00:08:57.940 when their mom was driving and they screamed 00:08:57.940 --> 00:09:01.399 and cried and pitched such a fit until she turned 00:09:01.399 --> 00:09:03.799 around and went back to get them. Their mom, 00:09:03.840 --> 00:09:07.340 my sister -in -law, is anything but an animal 00:09:07.340 --> 00:09:10.360 lover. So the fact that they convinced her to 00:09:10.360 --> 00:09:13.200 turn around, pick them up because touching them 00:09:13.200 --> 00:09:15.240 herself was shocking enough for me. She hates 00:09:15.240 --> 00:09:18.779 dogs. Loaded them in her super nice car without 00:09:18.779 --> 00:09:22.759 a crate or a blanket or anything and just piled 00:09:22.759 --> 00:09:26.639 them on top of her boys in their car seats. I'm 00:09:26.639 --> 00:09:29.320 impressed. I am very impressed. And they just 00:09:29.320 --> 00:09:31.860 kept saying, we have to go back and get them. 00:09:31.879 --> 00:09:34.759 We have to save them and take them to grandma's 00:09:34.759 --> 00:09:37.500 house. They would want them to save, they would 00:09:37.500 --> 00:09:40.700 want us to save them. Like it was so sweet. That 00:09:40.700 --> 00:09:44.019 my friends is how the next generation of little 00:09:44.019 --> 00:09:47.259 rescuers get started. I am a very proud Auntie 00:09:47.259 --> 00:09:53.940 Katie today. The S litter of six were found under 00:09:53.940 --> 00:09:56.840 a house with the mom who is super super feral 00:09:56.840 --> 00:10:00.659 They are actually a litter of seven and the seventh 00:10:00.659 --> 00:10:02.960 puppy was found several days later under that 00:10:02.960 --> 00:10:06.240 house But no one even knew that she existed until 00:10:06.240 --> 00:10:09.299 they saw her she will be coming on the next transport 00:10:09.299 --> 00:10:11.419 But because she was found later than the rest 00:10:11.419 --> 00:10:13.899 of this litter She didn't get all the ringworm 00:10:13.899 --> 00:10:16.419 treatments that the that the litter mates got 00:10:16.419 --> 00:10:19.539 so she's still contagious right now So we'll 00:10:19.539 --> 00:10:21.519 send her up on them next load when she's looking 00:10:21.519 --> 00:10:23.960 better and won't put y 'all at risk for catching 00:10:23.960 --> 00:10:28.559 Ringworm. And the homeowner is working to trap 00:10:28.559 --> 00:10:33.200 the mama dog so that we can spay her. As for 00:10:33.200 --> 00:10:36.799 the cats... Kelly Hamilton, Get Ready to Wiggle, 00:10:37.279 --> 00:10:41.059 and Munchy Crunchy are all from our cat rescue 00:10:41.059 --> 00:10:44.679 partner. None of them are related, but when I 00:10:44.679 --> 00:10:46.960 asked for their background stories, she said, 00:10:47.399 --> 00:10:49.919 no real stories on any of them. They're just 00:10:49.919 --> 00:10:55.009 part of the kitten distribution system. The C 00:10:55.009 --> 00:10:57.149 litter of two is actually a litter of three. 00:10:57.590 --> 00:11:00.190 They came from a pregnant cat that was supposed 00:11:00.190 --> 00:11:03.129 to go on transport some time back, but the lady 00:11:03.129 --> 00:11:05.830 couldn't get her hands on her the day of transport. 00:11:06.379 --> 00:11:09.179 Turns out she was actually giving birth during 00:11:09.179 --> 00:11:13.519 transport, so several weeks later this litter 00:11:13.519 --> 00:11:16.600 of kittens showed up under the car at this family's 00:11:16.600 --> 00:11:18.480 house and the mom was nowhere around and they 00:11:18.480 --> 00:11:22.220 were teeny tiny. She has a slew of other cats 00:11:22.220 --> 00:11:24.460 that actually live at an abandoned house across 00:11:24.460 --> 00:11:26.360 the street from her family and she was afraid 00:11:26.360 --> 00:11:29.080 something might happen to these kittens, so we 00:11:29.080 --> 00:11:31.600 sent the kittens to our bottle feeder foster. 00:11:32.120 --> 00:11:35.220 The mom did end up showing up over a week later 00:11:35.220 --> 00:11:37.460 but the kittens were doing so well and we knew 00:11:37.460 --> 00:11:39.139 that they would just end up as another group 00:11:39.139 --> 00:11:42.179 of feral cats that we would have to trap so we 00:11:42.179 --> 00:11:45.159 just left them where they were. Our bottle feeders 00:11:45.159 --> 00:11:47.779 got these kittens weaned and then they had to 00:11:47.779 --> 00:11:50.059 take in another litter so we sent these kittens 00:11:50.059 --> 00:11:52.879 to Jessica because they were off the bottle but 00:11:52.879 --> 00:11:55.919 still too little to go on transport. They ended 00:11:55.919 --> 00:11:59.179 up needing to be treated for a super heavy worm 00:11:59.179 --> 00:12:03.090 load and coccidia which tore their little bellies 00:12:03.090 --> 00:12:06.990 up. After several weeks of medicine and cleaning 00:12:06.990 --> 00:12:10.210 up lots and lots of diarrhea and some major TLC, 00:12:10.669 --> 00:12:13.690 they're all doing really well. The runt of the 00:12:13.690 --> 00:12:16.330 litter is still just a little too small and fragile 00:12:16.330 --> 00:12:18.409 to make the trip but he'll be coming up on the 00:12:18.409 --> 00:12:21.350 next transport. You wouldn't know it by looking 00:12:21.350 --> 00:12:24.070 at them but they are actually over eight weeks 00:12:24.070 --> 00:12:29.490 old. They have had a rough little life. The B 00:12:29.490 --> 00:12:33.230 litter of four and the P litter of four are all 00:12:33.230 --> 00:12:35.450 from the same house and I'm gonna be honest, 00:12:35.950 --> 00:12:39.909 they might be mixed up. There are four kittens 00:12:39.909 --> 00:12:42.889 that are about three months old from one litter 00:12:42.889 --> 00:12:45.789 and then there are four kittens that are about 00:12:45.789 --> 00:12:49.210 five months old from another litter. The problem 00:12:49.210 --> 00:12:52.529 is all eight of these kittens look like they're 00:12:52.529 --> 00:12:56.039 about four months old. So it's really hard to 00:12:56.039 --> 00:12:58.960 tell who's supposed to be in what litter. Regardless, 00:12:59.059 --> 00:13:01.320 they all came from the same house. They're all 00:13:01.320 --> 00:13:03.399 related somehow. They all have the same story. 00:13:03.960 --> 00:13:08.580 We were contacted by a guy in June about 15 kittens 00:13:08.580 --> 00:13:11.120 at a friend's house. We were so slammed with 00:13:11.120 --> 00:13:14.399 kittens, the idea of 15 more was more than a 00:13:14.399 --> 00:13:17.220 little overwhelming. We kept trying to organize 00:13:17.220 --> 00:13:19.419 with this guy to go see them and just kind of 00:13:19.419 --> 00:13:22.220 like get our ducks in a row. But every time that 00:13:22.220 --> 00:13:25.620 we would try to go see him, He's just, he's not 00:13:25.620 --> 00:13:27.840 the easiest person to work with. Every time we 00:13:27.840 --> 00:13:30.059 were supposed to take some of them, he would 00:13:30.059 --> 00:13:32.360 ghost us for a week or two. We'd be like, all 00:13:32.360 --> 00:13:34.620 right, he apparently doesn't want our help. We'll 00:13:34.620 --> 00:13:36.940 move on to the next litter. And then he would 00:13:36.940 --> 00:13:39.259 message us like two weeks later and ask for food 00:13:39.259 --> 00:13:41.860 and help again. So we finally made it work for 00:13:41.860 --> 00:13:43.879 this transport. We got our hands on them earlier 00:13:43.879 --> 00:13:46.279 this week, kept them at the doghouse just to 00:13:46.279 --> 00:13:48.259 make sure we had them all. They were all really 00:13:48.259 --> 00:13:51.049 gonna show up. They were actually friendly. This 00:13:51.049 --> 00:13:54.690 is also the same house that Unseen Bits is from 00:13:54.690 --> 00:13:57.710 that came up on the Love Island Transport. So 00:13:57.710 --> 00:14:00.070 we have officially taken all the kittens from 00:14:00.070 --> 00:14:03.409 this home and he has spay vouchers to get all 00:14:03.409 --> 00:14:08.950 three mama cats spayed. That is all the stories 00:14:08.950 --> 00:14:12.289 for this week, a much shorter and lighter episode 00:14:12.289 --> 00:14:15.629 this time compared to the last few. Thank you 00:14:15.629 --> 00:14:17.610 so much for listening. Thank you so much for 00:14:17.610 --> 00:14:19.730 reaching out to me, especially after the last 00:14:19.730 --> 00:14:22.870 episode. We honestly could not do any of this 00:14:22.870 --> 00:14:25.750 without you guys, and can you believe that I 00:14:25.750 --> 00:14:28.929 got monetized? I know that it's a super pain 00:14:28.929 --> 00:14:30.750 in the butt for you guys, and I really am sorry 00:14:30.750 --> 00:14:34.230 because I hate ads. I hate listening to podcasts 00:14:34.230 --> 00:14:37.570 with ads, but just think every time you hear 00:14:37.570 --> 00:14:41.750 an ad I am one step closer to quitting my job 00:14:41.750 --> 00:14:46.179 so that I can do it for free instead. So please 00:14:46.179 --> 00:14:49.580 take a second to share this podcast with another 00:14:49.580 --> 00:14:53.399 animal lover that you know or The adopters of 00:14:53.399 --> 00:14:56.159 the animal that you're fostering right now Rate 00:14:56.159 --> 00:14:58.759 review comment all the things to help it grow 00:14:58.759 --> 00:15:01.960 so that I can quit my job and more of the money 00:15:01.960 --> 00:15:05.399 can go towards the animals It's a Ruff life, 00:15:05.399 --> 00:15:07.299 but someone's got to do it