Welcome to Ruff life. Okay, so full disclosure
I typically will write out like more or less
a script of everything that I want to say in
the episode and all of the animals stories partly
so that I don't forget anybody or leave anybody
out but mainly because if I don't I say um and
like I'm not even kidding, probably every other
word. So it's easier for me if I have a script
that I basically just read, but I am so tired
tonight. We have been, Mary Sue and I, my one
year old have been going literally since 10 a
.m., which I realize for most people 10 a .m.
is not that early, but 10 a .m. is usually when...
Mary Sue and I are just waking up and it's actually
almost midnight here. So that's a long day for
me. We're actually doing two bands today. And
I know typically when we do a two band transport,
we're talking like 90 animals. That's not the
case this time, but it's actually only 55 animals,
which is kind of a little bit less than what
we usually do in one band. however we have actually
let me count them we have nine huge i mean not
huge but we have nine really big adult dogs who
each needed their own crate whereas you know
typically if we have five puppies all five puppies
go in one crate and that's five to one so we
needed a lot of crates and then we had a mom
with a litter of 12 That's insane and then a
mom with a litter of 10. So many big litters
and big adults. Anyways, so we're doing a two
van transport because I don't even know how how
Melissa found fosters for all of these. The plan
was that actually the plan always is post them
on Facebook and Instagram as we call it like
a call for fosters. post and anybody that gets
a foster gets to go. So like I posted nine adults
thinking probably three would find fosters. They'd
get to go. It'd be perfect. Melissa was just
clocking away like, OK, this one has a foster,
this one has one. She actually found fosters
for 10. But when we told the owner that the one
specific dog was going to get to go, she was
like, never mind, I don't want to send it. So
that's annoying. But hopefully she'll change
her mind and we'll get them in a couple weeks
So anyways, this is again why I stick to a script
two vans. So we did it two vans Typically what
we've always done for all ten years that we've
been doing this is if we have a two van transport
Both of the wolf traps south vans will meet in
oxville and we will meet the two wolf trap north
vans so my two drivers will get out of my two
vans they will get in the virginia two vans the
virginia drivers will get in my vans and they
just swap it's like we used to say it was like
ships passing in the night like they just they
just swap and keep going well when we had that
horrible wreck what was that like February of
this year it totaled our van And a company did
Super super grateful super appreciative. They
did donate a van to us, but it has I think like
a million I don't know it has a lot it has a
lot of miles on it and We've pretty much been
told like it's not even gonna make it to Knoxville
let alone all the way to Mississippi and then
back So we only have one actual transport van
that we can use So I called our rescue partner
Tasha. Tasha owns a funeral home and so they
have a cargo van similar to ours that they use
for like the big flower arrangements, like the
big sprays. This is not a hearse. We did not
send your puppies in a hearse. This is just another
big cargo van. Anyways, I called her and I'm
like, okay. Fantastic news. I have fosters for
absolutely every single animal at your house.
Bad news is I need your van and I need it to
go to Virginia and back. She's like, well, I
don't know if it'll make it back, but I'm pretty
sure that it'll make it all the way there. I'm
like, that's better than what we got right now.
So then we had to try to find a driver that would
go all the way there. I mean, that's a long drive.
That's like. I think it's like 15 hours and you're
going at like such a weird time like you leave
my house at 4 p .m. And you get to the headquarters.
I don't even know the buck crack it on like it's
super weird hours Anyways, there was nobody Absolutely.
Nobody that would do this drive for us and a
girl We actually took her puppies. Oh, let me
see. Let me see when we took those Oh, OK, it
was the sea litter of nine on the May 4th Star
Wars transport. So she this lady had a mama dog
wander up. She had puppies. We took the puppies
for her and then we agreed to spay the mom for
her because like that's that's the rule. You
give me your puppies, but you want to keep the
mom because you're attached to her. No problem.
I will spay her for you so you never have to
worry about this again. So we got her spayed
for her. and when she was dropping off the crate
that she used to get the dog to the appointment
and back, my mom just happened to be at the dog
house when she was dropping it off and she was
like, oh yeah, your puppy stood so great. Yeah,
we're actually in a dilemma right now. We don't
have anybody that will drive the van to Virginia
back. And she goes, I'm not doing anything this
weekend. My mom's like, don't play with me. Like,
can you? Can you drive to Virginia? She's like,
yeah, like I'll save my sister's off work. So
her sister ended up not being able to go, but
she found somebody else. I don't even know if
she knows the girl that she found, but I don't
care. So they showed up at transport just like
they did May 4th. But instead of dropping off
puppies, she was like, all right, I'll get in
and go. So I don't know her. If you meet her
tomorrow at intake. I hope she I hope she's nice
and normal. But yeah, we're super grateful. So
that's a miracle. Otherwise, I really I have
no idea how we were going to fit everybody. And
actually, we weren't going to fit everybody.
We were going to have to make some cuts. So that
would have been a big bummer. OK, but so let's
get to the stories without a script. And let's
see how this goes. The theme is bread and you
know. Or maybe you don't know if this is your
first time listening. I like to typically do
a theme About what's going on in the world, you
know, so like Olympics we did Olympic Sports
and Olympic athletes, you know March Madness
we do basketball things like that I'm staying
10 feet away from anything that's happening anywhere
in the world right now. So we're doing bread
and we're doing bread because I am making my
very own sourdough starter. Oh my goodness. So
like I've, I mean, we're not going to get too
deep into this. Don't worry. But like I have
always loved sourdough bread. I mean, obviously
look at me. I love all bread, but I am like very
intimidated by like the starter part of it. So
Super excited. I will touch base with you guys
next week and let you know how my little starters
growing But so yeah, I've just been thinking
about bread all the time We're going with it
Okay, so For those of you who are just listening
for the first time I'm so sorry, and it's usually
not this terrible It's usually more put together.
But so I will not say everybody's name. If it
is a single animal, I will say their name. But
if your foster is from a whole litter, I will
just say the letter of the litter. We have so
many people that will message me and be like,
you didn't mention my dog. It's from the litter,
the sea litter of 11. I'm like, OK, well. it
was the c letter that i talked about so if you
have a puppy from a litter i am not going to
name every single name in that litter okay let's
go raisin bread she roamed up to an elderly lady's
house. This is actually the same house as the
A litter from last week. There's really nothing
exciting to the story. She just wandered up as
a stray, but the lady said she's super sweet
and she's super smart and she is so grateful
that we've been able to help her with all these
drop offs. Johnny Cakes, which you cannot tell
me that that's not the cutest name for a little
puppy. Johnny Cakes wandered up to an elderly
lady's house that actually goes to church with
me or went to church with me when I. lived in
Boonville. She sent me a picture and asked if
we could take him. And one of our fosters just
happened to live right by her. So she went and
got her, got him within an hour. Like, is that
service or what? Vienna Bread is from our Alabama
shelter friends, which, you know, we love them
to death. They're our favorite shelter to work
with, but they never have. I shouldn't say never
because they got a really good story today. They
usually don't have good stories on theirs, just
a stray that no one claimed. Nan bread non bread
I've had it. It's delicious. I don't know how
to say it again from our Alabama shelter friends
came in as a stray with ringworm and They cleared
her up. She's doing great now Garlic bread also
a fantastic name for this dog. If you meet him,
you're either gonna be like that's the dumbest
name I've ever heard or that is the perfect name
for him Garlic bread. He's our six month old
chocolate lab He's also from the Alabama shelter.
He was posted online as like a stray that came
in and someone commented and was like yeah that's
my dog I don't want him so they were like okay
we'll find a rescue and then oh I'm so bummed
about this part of the reason a small reason
that I was so pumped about this two van transport
is because we have two pregnant dogs that Tasha
and I pulled and by Tasha and I I mean all Tasha
and I was just texting her going do it do it
do it do it do it so Tasha went and got these
two pregnant dogs and I was so excited that they
were gonna go on transport before they had puppies
and this dad gone mourning one of them had puppies
and she didn't get to go so the one that is going
is called hot cross buns and then the one that
held back was gonna be named hot dog buns oh
my goodness so cute but okay so i'm gonna go
off on a tangent here but stay with me please
or fast forward i don't care um so a super hot
topic in the rescue world is abort spays. So
an abort spay, if you don't know, is when a female
dog or cat comes in for a spay and they're pregnant.
Very, very hot button topic in the rescue world.
And I know I said I'm not touching anything in
the real world, but, you know, rescue world,
I'll talk. I'll talk all the tea with you guys
in the rescue world. So. okay these two dogs
specifically they were picked up as strays pregnant
very very pregnant and they were en route to
a shelter who said we will take them but we're
gonna spay them as soon as they get here like
walk in the door spam and then they'll just stay
at the shelter and here's here's my take i And
I'm totally team Abort space like they have a
time they have a place they are I am NOT against
them actually last week my My father -in -law
has a barn. He had a random cat show up. She
had kittens He asked me would I take all the
kittens? And at that point it was the mom too
When they were weaned, I'm like, yeah, absolutely
then all of the kittens died and he like He's
the sweetest. He's the sweetest man. He like
literally held her paw while these kittens died.
And I think it was like inbreeding. They they
weren't fully formed either. But so all of her
kittens died and he is like so invested in this
cat now. So I felt bad and he gives us free pine
shavings all the time for our dog kennel. So
he saves us a ton of money So I called Dr. Byrne.
I'm like, what do you think about me spaying
the cat for him for free? Because he saves us
so much money and we were going to spay the cat
anyways, whether with us or for him She's like,
yeah 100 % Absolutely. So She had just given
birth. So I told him, you know, let's wait four
weeks till she dries up when her milk dries up
a little bit and then We'll go ahead and get
her spayed. So four weeks goes by We take her
to the vet to be spayed and they call me and
they're like, hey, she's pregnant What they're
like, yeah, she's probably got I don't know two
or three weeks left and then she'll have kittens
Do you want us to just spare? gosh it's been
four like her kittens if they lived would be
four weeks old and she's already about to have
more kittens so i'm like yeah obviously spay
her her kittens clearly didn't do well and like
she just went through this her body does not
need to go through this again it's way too soon
so we abort spayed her to me that makes sense
so we get a call the other day about these two
pregnant mama dogs and the shelter was like bring
them in we'll spay them and here is my issue
with that if these were just going to be spayed
and put back out on the street as stray dogs
whatever absolutely 100 % abort spay these dogs
they do not need to be homeless and raising babies
like there's no way Or, you know, if this was
some owner who brought their dog in and they're
like, listen, we do not want to deal with finding
homes for puppies. Go ahead and spare. Absolutely.
But the unfortunate truth in the rescue world
is that pregnant moms get bumped to the top of
the priority list. And I know that that sounds
bad. Like I, I could take these dogs way faster
pregnant. than just random adult dogs. And the
reason is like, I know it sounds terrible, but
the reason is like we prioritize puppies because
puppies grow. So I can send 10 puppies in two
crates when they're eight weeks old or whatever.
But when they're eight months old, I now have
to have 10 crates for those 10 puppies. So. Get
them out sooner so that you can fit more and
you can save more lives well same thing for mama
dogs like if it is a Adult dog that's not pregnant.
It's not gonna get any bigger like there's no
True urgency if it's like, you know in a foster
home, it's safe. Nothing's gonna happen to it
it can wait and we can probably word I see these
other ones who are going to give birth and then
need more room in the crate or you know, puppies
who are running everywhere gonna get run over
and are getting bigger, you know, by the week.
So we can save pregnant mama dogs way faster
than we can save random not pregnant dogs, which
is unfortunate and I hate it and it sucks, but
it's the way it is. So. for this shelter who
clearly knows that to say like yeah we'll go
ahead and abort spay them because we don't want
to deal with the puppies here absolutely that
makes sense no one wants puppies in a shelter
but like you could find so many rescues to take
pregnant dogs way faster so i called Tasha and
i was like listen I don't know for sure when
I'll be able to take them, but I can take them
way quicker if they're still pregnant than I
can if they're not pregnant. So she called the
the finder that had picked them up and was taking
them to the shelter and was like, hey, bring
them to me. I'm going to foster them instead.
We asked one of our wolf trap fosters if she
would take both of them. She was like, yeah,
sure. Boom. Done like going to send them up this
weekend. There's no way that we would have gotten
fosters. this fast for them if they weren't pregnant
and jokes on us anyways because the one gave
birth before she even got to go. So anyways all
that to say I know that abort spays are a touchy
subject in the rescue world. I definitely think
they have a time and a place and I mean also
can we talk about the fact that they were going
to abort spay this mama dog's puppies when she
gave birth today? Like this was Wednesday? Thursday
That's insane. Like that's they're way too. Those
are actual puppies Okay, I don't want to get
too Too into it but like abort space when they're
you know, barely pregnant is just a spay Abort
space when they're actually full -grown viable
animals is euthanasia like like the actual technique
so This is why I usually have a script. Oh, and
it's also way, way, way riskier on the animals
to be spayed when they're full term pregnant.
So, I don't know. It's a very touchy subject,
obviously. Okay, on to English muffin. I love
her. And I love that she's getting to go this
transport so that I could name her English muffin.
She was seen running near a busy road for months,
literally. They could tell she was super mangy
and bald and she was just so tiny and so pitiful.
People tried for weeks to catch her, like rescues,
rescuers, random people, everybody. So there
were so many Facebook posts made about this dog,
more than I can count. Because so many people
were just so worried that like she would get
run over before anyone would be able to catch
her Finally our rescue partner Tasha good old
Tasha was able to trap to trap her and Get her
to one of her fosters who's had her for the last
several weeks now, and she is just so healthy
and so happy Such such a this is why we rescue
This is why we do it because this is Such a good.
She was so feral. She was so terrified and now
she just wants to be loved and petted all the
time. Love it. Unlovin' Bread is a purebred Cocker
Spaniel. Oh my goodness. I almost took her home
with me today. She was so precious. She was brought
into Dr. Jamie's clinic. If you're a new listener,
Dr. Jamie is one of Dr. Burton's vet students
from Mississippi State. who turned out to be
her lifelong best friend. And she has a clinic
in a nearby town. We help her with her strays.
She helps us with low cost surgeries. And so
this dog was brought in as a stray. Dr. Jamie,
they don't have animal control or shelter there.
So it's like pretty much just Dr. Jamie. She
posted on the clinic's Facebook page, you know,
is anyone missing this dog? Let us know. No one
came forward. No one wanted her. I think she
said something like, is this anyone's dog? I
was like, it's my dog. So after the stray hold
was up, Tasha went and got her and she's been
fostering her. Artisan, who is actually known
as Redford down here, was at a local kill shelter
and that kill shelter actually shut down. and
close the doors. So he was the very last dog
there because he was heartworm positive and no
one wanted him. So here we go again. Good old
Tasha. She helped. She basically ran that shelter.
And then when she stepped down, that's why the
whole thing. Shut down So Tasha took him paid
for his heartworm treatment through dr. Jamie
Got him through all the treatments and now he
is heartworm negative and ready for his freedom
ride Okay, I'm actually super super proud of
these next two names. It's two dogs one is solid
white Totally white and the other is like a tan
dirty blonde color Okay, the white one is white
bread and the tan one is whole wheat bread. Oh
My goodness, I love it. I think that is like
the best duo name I've ever done makes me laugh
every time I think about it So white bread and
whole wheat bread were dumped at a church near
Tasha's house, and they eventually wander down
to her house where she took them in and got them
vetted, including spaying and neutering them
with her own money just to better their chances
that a rescue would take them. Full disclosure,
we actually thought that White Bread was Whole
Wheat Bread's mom. We thought she was like a
year and a half old. One vet thought that she
was a year and a half, and the other vet thought
she was six months old and probably his litter
mate instead. So I don't know. They could not
even be related at all in the end. I don't know.
We'll see what Dr. Burton thinks in the morning.
Hopefully she'll be the tiebreaker. But like
watch her say, this dog is eight years old. No,
I think they probably are close in age and I
think they probably are related somehow. The
P litter of three showed up at someone's house
and she asked her neighbor who is one of our
fosters if we would take them. The C litter of
seven. So, you know, we have like litter names
down here just for our record keeping. So like,
you know, just so we can keep track of who we're
talking about. Well, this litter is called the
CPS puppies, the Child Protective Services puppies,
which is not, it's not funny. It's not a funny
story at all. But it is funny that Child Protective
Services is about puppies. instead of children.
Like that's so on par for our lives. Well, animal
control called us about a lady who called him,
but she lived out in the county so there was
nothing he could do because he can only help
in the city limits. So the lady called him and
said that she had a mama dog who had puppies
and CPS told her that she could not have her
kids back until she got rid of the puppies. I
don't know this, but I am assuming it's because
of like unsanitary reasons. You know, like the
puppies were in her house. I'm assuming she didn't
clean up well after them. Maybe it was allergies.
I don't know. I would assume it's because she
didn't clean up after them. So we were like,
oh, my gosh, we have to help this lady get her
kids back. Obviously, let's go get these puppies.
So. When we went to get them, she had them all
in the bathroom and she let them come out and
she would scream at them and slap them every
time they peed or pooped on the floor. So we
went from being like, oh my gosh, we got to help
this lady to, oh my gosh, we got to help these
puppies. We have to get them out of here. They
were super, super, super skinny, very dehydrated
when we got them. And some of them had started
losing their hair. And then several of them completely
lost their hair, like within the next few days.
So they've all been treated for mange. They're
all doing fantastic now and. their hair's growing
back and they look great. They're going to be
super stinking cute when their hair comes back
all the way. And I don't know if she got her
kids back. I don't know. I don't know what happened
with that. The Bee Mom and her litter of 10 puppies
is a crazy story. And that's so funny because
they are from our Alabama shelter friends who
I just said never have good stories. But this
is actually a super wild story. So we have The
way our towns are we have a four -lane highway
that runs through it and so on one side of the
highway there's a loves gas station and then
across the street is I actually don't know what
the other kind of gas station is but it's another
gas station and it's not as nice as loves because
I always stop at the loves but there is this
mom dog who lives at loves just in the parking
lot and behind the gas station and in the mornings,
you know, like everyone has the routines. They
stop, you know, at the same places for breakfast
at the same times a day, you know, and and they
see the same people at the same time. You know
what I mean? So. These people all got used to
seeing her and they would give her, you know,
like they'd buy her biscuit at breakfast or they'd
buy her a chicken patty at lunch. She's a sick
girl. She's really well fed. So she would...
be at love's in the morning. And then like when
that rush would die down, she would cross the
street, cross the four lane highway where cars
are going 75, 80 miles an hour. And I am confident
that some people are doing 80 because I am one
of them. So she would cross the highway and go
to the other gas station and like be bop around
and see if any of them would feed her and. She
was like real friendly, but very like don't touch
me very skittish so no one could actually catch
her they could just feed her and then Everyone
noticed she was pregnant and everyone was like,
okay, like it's all fun and games until there's
babies involved and The shelter was trying to
from what I understand the shelter was trying
to catch her and was kind of telling everyone
You know, like don't fear so that she'll be hungry.
So she'll go in our trap but I mean how do you
tell people that that are just like you know
from out of state passing through on this four
lane highway so she never went in the trap then
she had her babies and then it was like all right
all right we really got to buckle down we got
to get them so I think the babies were maybe
two weeks old as very much still needed their
mom like not eating on their own not walking
around not wandering and they had a rescuer a
local rescuer who was working literally every
single day trying to catch this mom and her puppies
and she went one morning and the mom was like
freaking out no puppies anywhere nowhere and
so we were all like this is really weird I mean
not me I wasn't involved in this but looking
back I that's what I would have said but like
everyone was like this is really weird so she
ended up like going straight into the into the
trap I don't know if she was looking for her
babies or I don't know what was going on or if
she just knew, hey, I need help. She went in
the trap. They got her to the shelter. They combed
the area. They combed like across the highway
at the other gas station everywhere. No one could
find these puppies. No one knew what happened
to them. Again, like they're they couldn't walk.
They're newborn babies. Like they're not wandering
into the highway. They're like in a pile all
the time. So five days goes by. They are making
Facebook posts everywhere. Everyone's like, like
if you have them, if you picked them up and you
didn't know, like just bring them back. No questions
asked. People... This is not funny People were
bringing in their own puppies to the shelter
and they'd be like I found these do you think
these are the missing puppies and they're like
no We know what the puppies look like they didn't
look like those like we know We know that her
two week old puppies are not your eight week
old puppies that you're just trying to surrender
now But that tickled me so bad that people were
like, oh we can use this we can we can pawn our
puppies up anyways Back to her story. So they
made a Facebook post and they were like, listen,
her milk is drying up like it's now or never.
If we wait too long, she's not going to be able
to take them back in. We're going to have to
find bottle feeders if we get them back. We will
give a five hundred dollar reward to anybody,
you know, who who brings these puppies back.
No questions asked. Well, nobody brought them
in. Nobody got the money. But somebody called
or alerted someone at the gas station who called
the shelter and a box with the puppies in it
mysteriously showed up like in the in the it's
not a field but like the grassy area behind the
gas station and it was her puppies All the puppies
were returned in a box. So the shelter ran down
there, got them, got them back to this mom. She
was so, so, so, so happy to see her babies again.
Remind me all my all my OGs that are listening,
remind me to post the video on the foster's page,
because it is so sweet when she gets her babies
back after all these days. And so anyways, I
text the the shelter manager and I'm like, listen,
I want these." And she's like, well, 10 other
rescues have stepped up for this mom. And I'm
like, ugh, I knew it. Like, that's such a good
story. I knew so many rescuers would want her.
And I'm like, all right, well, good. Like, I'm
glad she's getting a rescue. And the next day,
she texted me and she was like, when would they
leave if we let you have her? I was like... When
do you want her to leave like I want her so bad
and so she was like we talked about it like you're
the only rescue that Consistently pulls from
us. So like if you want her she's yours and I
was like, yes I cannot believe we got her we
got cuz like she was famous I mean not famous
but you know like like in our town in our little
area like Everyone knew her. Everyone knew that
her babies were stolen. Everyone was looking,
everyone was like, you know, where did these
puppies come from? Are these her puppies? So
like the fact that we got her, I am just so excited.
She's like a little celebrity and she's just
a great dog and she deserves a wolf trap. Happy
ending. The S mom and her litter of 12 puppies
so insane the mom was dumped super super super
super pregnant at a local high school and Everyone
was posting looking for a rescue. No rescue stepped
up even me. I did not step up and Tasha's Foster
stepped up and she took it took the dog in and
four days later. She had puppies and then I can't
even remember why I said no at the time. I think
we just had too many and then things slow down
and I told Tasha I would take her and Tasha was
super excited and now I'm super excited. She's
a great dog and her puppies are so cute. Okay,
that is all the puppy stories now for the cats
and I'm gonna go way faster. I promise. Lavish?
Is that how you say it? Lavash? Maybe it's lavash.
Lavish? Lavish? She came in as a stray feral
cat. to the Alabama shelter, but she's super,
super friendly now, super sweet. The tea litter
of two kittens were bottle babies at the Alabama
shelter that came in as strays that were just
orphans. And they're eating real food and doing
great now. Dave's killer bread. OK, this is really
funny to me because this is Jessica's kitten
and Jessica's husband's name is Dave and Dave.
I remember. Dave telling me that their son their
adult son had never had white bread before and
he was like white bread's really bad for you
like we don't Eat white bread. I'm like, what
do you guys eat? He's like we eat like healthy
whole grain whatever bread So one of the breads
that they liked was Dave's killer bread. Well,
anyways now with all of Jessica's health issues
They don't eat any bread of any kind, but I thought
that was so funny that I named Dave's cat Dave's
killer bread. Anyways, this kitten is from the
seed litter from last week that we held this
one back because he was just real tiny and real
skinny. We actually got these over a month ago.
They had been losing weight drastically with
the foster that they were with. And so Jessica
took them in when they were about five weeks
old and they weighed less than half a pound.
That's a lot like they should have been closer
to two pounds and they didn't even weigh close
to one pound. So we really didn't know if he
was going to make it the first few nights. But
after lots of medicine and TLC from Jessica and
Dave, he finally started to get a good appetite
and started gaining weight. He's had more baths
in the last month than most cats do their whole
life because he was just so Gross and just leaking
poop He's probably never gonna love water and
he's been having the best time as an only child
at Jessica's house There is a guy in town I actually
went to high school with him and he's like Like
a cat lady, but he's a guy like cats are just
like drawn to him or he's drawn to cats I don't
know. Anyways, we take random cats from him all
the time that he just finds well he called us
the other day and he said a Cat had shown up
at his friend's house with a really swollen eye
so he went and got the cat and he took it home
and put it in his bathroom and Literally texted
Jessica a hundred times a day. Like what do I
do? What can I do? Can you do anything? What
should we do? What are we going to do? Jessica
was finally like, Oh my gosh, I'm just going
to take the cat. So he'll leave me alone. So
she picked up the cat and she was like, the eye
does look pretty bad. So she took it to our vet
and our vet said that he has an abscess on his
eye, in his eye, I don't know, probably from
a scratch or a bite. So he had to have a drain
tube in his eye for a week. But now that he has
the drain tube out, he's totally healthy. literally
like stuck to us like glue. He is so sweet and
so friendly. He's going to be a great cat for
somebody. The M litter of five are owner surrenders
from a lady that is trying to get her own personal
stray cat population under control She's worked
really really hard and takes fantastic care of
them But she just has so many and these were
starting to roam and she was terrified that they
would wander off or get run over so she was super
happy that we're taking them and Are gonna find
them wonderful homes and we will be spaying the
feral mama cat for her So that is all the stories
for you guys for today. But I do, as always,
want to end on a really sad note. So we had the...
what were they? Last week we had... The litter
of six s the s litter of six From the Wiggles
Transport they were actually a litter of seven
and we held one of them back So the way ringworm
works is like you have to have so many treatments
within so many weeks for you to not be contagious
anymore and we had gotten a call about these
puppies that were under an abandoned house and
One of our rescue partners went and got them
all and then got a call Got them home realized
they all had ringworm started the ringworm treatment
and then several days later got a call that there
was one left So she went and got that one and
that one Started ringworm treatment several days
after everyone else So everyone else was cleared
to go on transport and not contagious except
for this one. So we held it back and it was going
to go on transport today and so it was it was
no longer contagious like three days after transport
like it was no time after transport so the foster
has had her in her house all the time sleeps
in the bed with them she takes it to work with
with her during the day literally the cutest
sweetest little puppy and they just adored her
and last night when her husband was pulling into
the driveway after work, she had the puppy outside
going to the bathroom and her husband didn't
see it and ran her over and killed her. So super
sad story, super sad for them, super sad obviously
for the puppy. But like that is why we are so,
so extreme. about getting animals out of here
as fast as we can. like could we have held half
these animals back until last until next transport
and like saved the money from having to pay two
drivers in a hotel room and like the gas for
two vans absolutely like from a business standpoint
this is dumb we should we should never do two
van transports from a business standpoint but
like how many of these animals won't be alive
by next transport This puppy was in a foster
home, in a wonderful, wonderful, probably our
best foster home, and she didn't even make it.
Like, we just we got to get him out of here as
fast as we can, as many as we can, as fast as
we can. So that's a lot. This is a well, this
is like a 40 minute episode again. So I think
the moral of the story here is I will stick to
my script from now on and do a better job. But
if you stuck in till the end, thank you for listening.
Thank you for fostering. Thank you for supporting
us. We have our super big, super fun 10 year
10 year. That's insane. Anniversary party coming
up next month. I hope everyone will be there.
I hope you all bring your dogs there. I know
everyone's wondering if I'm going or not. I don't
know. I still don't know if I'm going or not.
Obviously, me, my mom, and Jessica all want to
go. No, okay, let me say it this way. We want
to be at it so, so bad. Literally, we want to
be at it so bad, but none of us want to go to
it, like travel. And I don't know if the three
of us have ever left. at the same time like at
at most two of us leave at the same time and
one of us stays back to hold down the fort so
i don't even know if we can i don't even know
if we will but we really want to and regardless
we want to see all the pictures from it so everybody
go get your raffle tickets i am working on collecting
all of the Raffle items and like the silent auction
items and we're getting some really good stuff
in so again If you are a business or you work
in a business or you know a business and you
want to donate something like we even have someone
who The business that she runs doesn't really
have anything that they can donate to raffle
or use a silent auction item so instead she's
donating money and we are using that money to
buy gift cards from her business so her business
is still gonna get the um advertisement i guess
is the word yep that's the word the advertisement
from it but it'll be like an item that people
actually want instead of construction Okay, but
it is almost 1am and I have to go to bed and
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