Hello, friends. Welcome to Ruff Life. Well,
if you listened to last week's episode, I'm doing
much better. All of our parvo puppies have survived
since that episode. All of our ringworm is better.
Things overall are just... brighter and happier
down here. Plus it's not 111 degrees anymore
which I feel like always makes things better.
If you did miss last week's episode, I do encourage
you to go listen to it specifically if you're
fostering one of the W puppies especially. They
have such a horrific story that I won't go too
deep into in this episode since I did spend about
20 minutes talking about them last week. I do
just want to take a second just to talk about
the upcoming anniversary party that Wolf Trap
is having. If you missed my post in the foster
group, we are having a huge mega super fun 10
year anniversary party on October 12th. Everyone
is invited, humans, dogs, cats, everybody. But
we are wanting to have a really successful silent
auction and raffle prizes to fundraise for the
next 10 years of Wolf Trap. So if you own a business
or anything and you want to donate a gift card
or an item or anything to the fundraiser, that
would be so, so appreciated. Or someone even
in the foster group had the idea of people pitching
in money for like multiple gift cards, either
for one big silent auction basket or to be used
as raffle prizes. That is a super awesome, super
generous idea. Or if you have like a Groomer
or doggy daycare that you love and trust and
want to reach out to them To see if they would
be willing to donate a gift card or free daycare
days or something everything is a tax write -off
since we're 501 c3 and Everything will be available
to bid on in person or online. So you don't even
have to be present to win Although I do hope
everyone goes because it sounds like it's gonna
be really fun and exciting Okay on to the stories.
The theme for this week is Wiggles. Again if
you listened to my last two episodes you know
my sweet precious baby was named Wiggle and we
fought so hard to save him but couldn't. So I
was just gonna scrap the whole theme altogether
when he died but then I brought Wags, his brother,
home from the ICU when he was discharged and
we named him Wags the dog after you know the
dog on Wiggles and then Wigs and wags was just
so cute together, so instead of just scrapping
the theme because of Wiggle, we are doing the
theme in memory of Wiggle, who I know without
a doubt would have been the best dog whoever
adopted him ever had. He was a perfect baby angel,
never made a peep. Always wagged his tail no
matter how miserable he was feeling. Always gave
me kisses even when I was jabbing him with needles
and shoving medicine down his throat just to
keep him alive a few more hours. So the wiggle
transport. Dorothy the dinosaur came up to an
elderly couple's house in a nearby town. They
took her to the vet and they spent well over
a hundred dollars getting her everything she
needed but they just did not want to keep a puppy.
Lachlan was found as a stray. He was posted on
Facebook by a girl saying he was in her carport
and someone tagged one of our rescue partners
who ran and got him that day. The H litter of
two were dumped on a back road and posted on
Facebook as free to a good home if someone would
go and get them. They were originally a litter
of three but someone grabbed the third one before
our rescue partner got out there to get them.
The F litter of two were found in the play yard
at our vets office on a weekend. They had to
have been thrown over the fence for them to be
in the part that they were in. The vet held on
to them for the week because we had literally
nowhere for them to go and everything we had
was parvo. They're the litter that Jessica picked
up as she was dropping off her parvo puppy who
is now the T litter. to be treated in their ICU.
She picked them up on a Friday thinking that
they would go on transport the next afternoon
only to discover that they were covered in ringworm
and would not be allowed on transport, which
left us in quite a bind because we can stash
a puppy or two at the doghouse for a night, you
know, before transport and it's not a big deal,
but Puppies really need more attention and care,
especially when they're undergoing ringworm treatment,
than we can provide them at the doghouse. And
because Mama Becky's parvo puppies weren't going
on transport, and Jessica's parvo puppies weren't
going on transport, and my parvo puppy wasn't
going on transport, we had Nowhere for these
two to go luckily though our rescue partner Tasha
felt bad for us and Because she also had a litter
of ringworm puppies who wouldn't be going on
transport She offered to foster these two for
us too because really what's two more when you
already have six that you're treating but All
of these puppies that I just mentioned that didn't
get to go last transport are all on today's podcast
because they are all happy, healthy, and alive.
The E letter of three came from, this is what
she said, came from an idiot that was giving
the whole litter away at four weeks old. There
were eight of them, but he gave five of them
away before we could get out there to get them.
He refused to let them stay with the mama any
longer than four weeks. They were born and raised
in the dirt outside and were infested with fleas
and ringworm when we got them." The W letter
of three? The whole reason for this theme this
week is these puppies. I have talked at length
about these precious precious puppies, this litter
of eight. So that is, if you're fostering one
of these you should definitely go listen to these
episodes, but if you're just interested in the
story that nearly broke Wolf Trap South, go check
out the August 9th ocean animal episode and then
the August 23rd love island episode, but I will
say these are some of the calmest, sweetest,
quietest puppies I have ever seen pre and post
parvo. They are going to be the absolute best
dogs. And that just makes it even worse that
so many of them didn't make it because they would
have been so, so, so, so loved. The a litter
of three our owner surrenders the mama showed
up at a pregnant lady's house When she realized
that the dog was also pregnant she decided to
let her stay She knew she didn't want to take
care of puppies and her own newborn baby So she
decided to surrender the puppies when they were
about six weeks old She's still deciding if she's
gonna keep the mom or not, but we will have her
spayed in the meantime either way The Tea Littera
5 were found several weeks ago on a dead -end
road out in the county. They were pretty terrified
of people at first but slowly started coming
around. It didn't help that they had ringworm
and had to be dipped multiple times a week, which
is traumatic for everyone involved. And then
one of the girls broke with parvo shortly after
getting her, so she spent a few days at the vet
and then the next week she was in isolation in
Jessica's shed until she was no longer testing
positive and then she got to go to a new foster.
The other four were started on preventative meds
immediately and they never seem to fully break.
We have had so many parvo puppies and ringworm
puppies this month, but this litter was actually
both. They had both parvo and ringworm. The R
litter of seven were found as strays on a back
road. I talked about them a little bit at the
end of last week's episode. There's really nothing
special about their story. They were just found
on the side of the road. But what I love most
about this story and why this will be a litter
that I remember until the end of time is because
it was my four and six -year -old nephews who
pulled these puppies. They saw them in the ditch
when their mom was driving and they screamed
and cried and pitched such a fit until she turned
around and went back to get them. Their mom,
my sister -in -law, is anything but an animal
lover. So the fact that they convinced her to
turn around, pick them up because touching them
herself was shocking enough for me. She hates
dogs. Loaded them in her super nice car without
a crate or a blanket or anything and just piled
them on top of her boys in their car seats. I'm
impressed. I am very impressed. And they just
kept saying, we have to go back and get them.
We have to save them and take them to grandma's
house. They would want them to save, they would
want us to save them. Like it was so sweet. That
my friends is how the next generation of little
rescuers get started. I am a very proud Auntie
Katie today. The S litter of six were found under
a house with the mom who is super super feral
They are actually a litter of seven and the seventh
puppy was found several days later under that
house But no one even knew that she existed until
they saw her she will be coming on the next transport
But because she was found later than the rest
of this litter She didn't get all the ringworm
treatments that the that the litter mates got
so she's still contagious right now So we'll
send her up on them next load when she's looking
better and won't put y 'all at risk for catching
Ringworm. And the homeowner is working to trap
the mama dog so that we can spay her. As for
the cats... Kelly Hamilton, Get Ready to Wiggle,
and Munchy Crunchy are all from our cat rescue
partner. None of them are related, but when I
asked for their background stories, she said,
no real stories on any of them. They're just
part of the kitten distribution system. The C
litter of two is actually a litter of three.
They came from a pregnant cat that was supposed
to go on transport some time back, but the lady
couldn't get her hands on her the day of transport.
Turns out she was actually giving birth during
transport, so several weeks later this litter
of kittens showed up under the car at this family's
house and the mom was nowhere around and they
were teeny tiny. She has a slew of other cats
that actually live at an abandoned house across
the street from her family and she was afraid
something might happen to these kittens, so we
sent the kittens to our bottle feeder foster.
The mom did end up showing up over a week later
but the kittens were doing so well and we knew
that they would just end up as another group
of feral cats that we would have to trap so we
just left them where they were. Our bottle feeders
got these kittens weaned and then they had to
take in another litter so we sent these kittens
to Jessica because they were off the bottle but
still too little to go on transport. They ended
up needing to be treated for a super heavy worm
load and coccidia which tore their little bellies
up. After several weeks of medicine and cleaning
up lots and lots of diarrhea and some major TLC,
they're all doing really well. The runt of the
litter is still just a little too small and fragile
to make the trip but he'll be coming up on the
next transport. You wouldn't know it by looking
at them but they are actually over eight weeks
old. They have had a rough little life. The B
litter of four and the P litter of four are all
from the same house and I'm gonna be honest,
they might be mixed up. There are four kittens
that are about three months old from one litter
and then there are four kittens that are about
five months old from another litter. The problem
is all eight of these kittens look like they're
about four months old. So it's really hard to
tell who's supposed to be in what litter. Regardless,
they all came from the same house. They're all
related somehow. They all have the same story.
We were contacted by a guy in June about 15 kittens
at a friend's house. We were so slammed with
kittens, the idea of 15 more was more than a
little overwhelming. We kept trying to organize
with this guy to go see them and just kind of
like get our ducks in a row. But every time that
we would try to go see him, He's just, he's not
the easiest person to work with. Every time we
were supposed to take some of them, he would
ghost us for a week or two. We'd be like, all
right, he apparently doesn't want our help. We'll
move on to the next litter. And then he would
message us like two weeks later and ask for food
and help again. So we finally made it work for
this transport. We got our hands on them earlier
this week, kept them at the doghouse just to
make sure we had them all. They were all really
gonna show up. They were actually friendly. This
is also the same house that Unseen Bits is from
that came up on the Love Island Transport. So
we have officially taken all the kittens from
this home and he has spay vouchers to get all
three mama cats spayed. That is all the stories
for this week, a much shorter and lighter episode
this time compared to the last few. Thank you
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