WEBVTT 00:00:10.880 --> 00:00:15.480 Welcome to Ruff life. Okay, so full disclosure 00:00:15.480 --> 00:00:20.320 I typically will write out like more or less 00:00:20.320 --> 00:00:23.640 a script of everything that I want to say in 00:00:23.640 --> 00:00:28.660 the episode and all of the animals stories partly 00:00:28.660 --> 00:00:31.399 so that I don't forget anybody or leave anybody 00:00:31.399 --> 00:00:37.960 out but mainly because if I don't I say um and 00:00:37.960 --> 00:00:41.549 like I'm not even kidding, probably every other 00:00:41.549 --> 00:00:45.350 word. So it's easier for me if I have a script 00:00:45.350 --> 00:00:48.409 that I basically just read, but I am so tired 00:00:48.409 --> 00:00:52.289 tonight. We have been, Mary Sue and I, my one 00:00:52.289 --> 00:00:55.789 year old have been going literally since 10 a 00:00:55.789 --> 00:01:01.149 .m., which I realize for most people 10 a .m. 00:01:01.149 --> 00:01:03.829 is not that early, but 10 a .m. is usually when... 00:01:03.799 --> 00:01:06.760 Mary Sue and I are just waking up and it's actually 00:01:06.760 --> 00:01:09.040 almost midnight here. So that's a long day for 00:01:09.040 --> 00:01:15.459 me. We're actually doing two bands today. And 00:01:15.459 --> 00:01:17.760 I know typically when we do a two band transport, 00:01:17.900 --> 00:01:22.000 we're talking like 90 animals. That's not the 00:01:22.000 --> 00:01:26.859 case this time, but it's actually only 55 animals, 00:01:26.859 --> 00:01:30.780 which is kind of a little bit less than what 00:01:30.780 --> 00:01:36.219 we usually do in one band. however we have actually 00:01:36.219 --> 00:01:41.579 let me count them we have nine huge i mean not 00:01:41.579 --> 00:01:45.739 huge but we have nine really big adult dogs who 00:01:45.739 --> 00:01:49.319 each needed their own crate whereas you know 00:01:49.319 --> 00:01:52.959 typically if we have five puppies all five puppies 00:01:52.959 --> 00:01:56.579 go in one crate and that's five to one so we 00:01:56.579 --> 00:01:59.900 needed a lot of crates and then we had a mom 00:01:59.900 --> 00:02:02.560 with a litter of 12 That's insane and then a 00:02:02.560 --> 00:02:05.620 mom with a litter of 10. So many big litters 00:02:05.620 --> 00:02:09.419 and big adults. Anyways, so we're doing a two 00:02:09.419 --> 00:02:13.159 van transport because I don't even know how how 00:02:13.159 --> 00:02:16.699 Melissa found fosters for all of these. The plan 00:02:16.699 --> 00:02:20.039 was that actually the plan always is post them 00:02:20.039 --> 00:02:23.360 on Facebook and Instagram as we call it like 00:02:23.360 --> 00:02:26.969 a call for fosters. post and anybody that gets 00:02:26.969 --> 00:02:31.810 a foster gets to go. So like I posted nine adults 00:02:31.810 --> 00:02:35.849 thinking probably three would find fosters. They'd 00:02:35.849 --> 00:02:39.150 get to go. It'd be perfect. Melissa was just 00:02:39.150 --> 00:02:40.930 clocking away like, OK, this one has a foster, 00:02:41.050 --> 00:02:42.590 this one has one. She actually found fosters 00:02:42.590 --> 00:02:47.710 for 10. But when we told the owner that the one 00:02:47.710 --> 00:02:49.710 specific dog was going to get to go, she was 00:02:49.710 --> 00:02:52.229 like, never mind, I don't want to send it. So 00:02:52.229 --> 00:02:55.389 that's annoying. But hopefully she'll change 00:02:55.389 --> 00:02:56.889 her mind and we'll get them in a couple weeks 00:02:56.889 --> 00:03:00.110 So anyways, this is again why I stick to a script 00:03:00.110 --> 00:03:03.590 two vans. So we did it two vans Typically what 00:03:03.590 --> 00:03:06.469 we've always done for all ten years that we've 00:03:06.469 --> 00:03:09.169 been doing this is if we have a two van transport 00:03:09.169 --> 00:03:14.000 Both of the wolf traps south vans will meet in 00:03:14.000 --> 00:03:17.599 oxville and we will meet the two wolf trap north 00:03:17.599 --> 00:03:21.060 vans so my two drivers will get out of my two 00:03:21.060 --> 00:03:23.939 vans they will get in the virginia two vans the 00:03:23.939 --> 00:03:25.840 virginia drivers will get in my vans and they 00:03:25.840 --> 00:03:28.960 just swap it's like we used to say it was like 00:03:28.960 --> 00:03:32.199 ships passing in the night like they just they 00:03:32.199 --> 00:03:35.240 just swap and keep going well when we had that 00:03:35.240 --> 00:03:39.419 horrible wreck what was that like February of 00:03:39.419 --> 00:03:44.449 this year it totaled our van And a company did 00:03:44.449 --> 00:03:47.590 Super super grateful super appreciative. They 00:03:47.590 --> 00:03:51.349 did donate a van to us, but it has I think like 00:03:51.349 --> 00:03:54.830 a million I don't know it has a lot it has a 00:03:54.830 --> 00:03:58.889 lot of miles on it and We've pretty much been 00:03:58.889 --> 00:04:01.210 told like it's not even gonna make it to Knoxville 00:04:01.210 --> 00:04:04.210 let alone all the way to Mississippi and then 00:04:04.210 --> 00:04:08.889 back So we only have one actual transport van 00:04:08.889 --> 00:04:13.520 that we can use So I called our rescue partner 00:04:13.520 --> 00:04:18.279 Tasha. Tasha owns a funeral home and so they 00:04:18.279 --> 00:04:21.680 have a cargo van similar to ours that they use 00:04:21.680 --> 00:04:25.680 for like the big flower arrangements, like the 00:04:25.680 --> 00:04:30.680 big sprays. This is not a hearse. We did not 00:04:30.680 --> 00:04:34.899 send your puppies in a hearse. This is just another 00:04:34.899 --> 00:04:37.740 big cargo van. Anyways, I called her and I'm 00:04:37.740 --> 00:04:41.379 like, okay. Fantastic news. I have fosters for 00:04:41.379 --> 00:04:44.720 absolutely every single animal at your house. 00:04:45.100 --> 00:04:47.699 Bad news is I need your van and I need it to 00:04:47.699 --> 00:04:49.879 go to Virginia and back. She's like, well, I 00:04:49.879 --> 00:04:54.240 don't know if it'll make it back, but I'm pretty 00:04:54.240 --> 00:04:56.480 sure that it'll make it all the way there. I'm 00:04:56.480 --> 00:04:58.740 like, that's better than what we got right now. 00:04:59.319 --> 00:05:02.339 So then we had to try to find a driver that would 00:05:02.339 --> 00:05:05.040 go all the way there. I mean, that's a long drive. 00:05:05.079 --> 00:05:08.250 That's like. I think it's like 15 hours and you're 00:05:08.250 --> 00:05:11.490 going at like such a weird time like you leave 00:05:11.490 --> 00:05:16.610 my house at 4 p .m. And you get to the headquarters. 00:05:16.649 --> 00:05:19.709 I don't even know the buck crack it on like it's 00:05:19.709 --> 00:05:25.149 super weird hours Anyways, there was nobody Absolutely. 00:05:25.350 --> 00:05:29.689 Nobody that would do this drive for us and a 00:05:29.689 --> 00:05:33.550 girl We actually took her puppies. Oh, let me 00:05:33.550 --> 00:05:36.910 see. Let me see when we took those Oh, OK, it 00:05:36.910 --> 00:05:41.970 was the sea litter of nine on the May 4th Star 00:05:41.970 --> 00:05:46.910 Wars transport. So she this lady had a mama dog 00:05:46.910 --> 00:05:49.610 wander up. She had puppies. We took the puppies 00:05:49.610 --> 00:05:53.350 for her and then we agreed to spay the mom for 00:05:53.350 --> 00:05:55.949 her because like that's that's the rule. You 00:05:55.949 --> 00:05:57.629 give me your puppies, but you want to keep the 00:05:57.629 --> 00:05:59.649 mom because you're attached to her. No problem. 00:05:59.649 --> 00:06:01.370 I will spay her for you so you never have to 00:06:01.370 --> 00:06:04.550 worry about this again. So we got her spayed 00:06:04.550 --> 00:06:09.259 for her. and when she was dropping off the crate 00:06:09.259 --> 00:06:12.300 that she used to get the dog to the appointment 00:06:12.300 --> 00:06:15.439 and back, my mom just happened to be at the dog 00:06:15.439 --> 00:06:17.040 house when she was dropping it off and she was 00:06:17.040 --> 00:06:19.180 like, oh yeah, your puppy stood so great. Yeah, 00:06:19.199 --> 00:06:21.420 we're actually in a dilemma right now. We don't 00:06:21.420 --> 00:06:23.839 have anybody that will drive the van to Virginia 00:06:23.839 --> 00:06:26.040 back. And she goes, I'm not doing anything this 00:06:26.040 --> 00:06:29.879 weekend. My mom's like, don't play with me. Like, 00:06:29.939 --> 00:06:33.050 can you? Can you drive to Virginia? She's like, 00:06:33.050 --> 00:06:35.910 yeah, like I'll save my sister's off work. So 00:06:35.910 --> 00:06:37.889 her sister ended up not being able to go, but 00:06:37.889 --> 00:06:39.470 she found somebody else. I don't even know if 00:06:39.470 --> 00:06:43.189 she knows the girl that she found, but I don't 00:06:43.189 --> 00:06:48.009 care. So they showed up at transport just like 00:06:48.009 --> 00:06:51.189 they did May 4th. But instead of dropping off 00:06:51.189 --> 00:06:53.430 puppies, she was like, all right, I'll get in 00:06:53.430 --> 00:06:58.110 and go. So I don't know her. If you meet her 00:06:58.110 --> 00:07:02.660 tomorrow at intake. I hope she I hope she's nice 00:07:02.660 --> 00:07:07.779 and normal. But yeah, we're super grateful. So 00:07:07.779 --> 00:07:10.300 that's a miracle. Otherwise, I really I have 00:07:10.300 --> 00:07:12.600 no idea how we were going to fit everybody. And 00:07:12.600 --> 00:07:14.060 actually, we weren't going to fit everybody. 00:07:14.279 --> 00:07:16.660 We were going to have to make some cuts. So that 00:07:16.660 --> 00:07:19.500 would have been a big bummer. OK, but so let's 00:07:19.500 --> 00:07:22.439 get to the stories without a script. And let's 00:07:22.439 --> 00:07:27.620 see how this goes. The theme is bread and you 00:07:27.620 --> 00:07:30.459 know. Or maybe you don't know if this is your 00:07:30.459 --> 00:07:34.279 first time listening. I like to typically do 00:07:34.279 --> 00:07:39.920 a theme About what's going on in the world, you 00:07:39.920 --> 00:07:43.360 know, so like Olympics we did Olympic Sports 00:07:43.360 --> 00:07:46.680 and Olympic athletes, you know March Madness 00:07:46.680 --> 00:07:51.980 we do basketball things like that I'm staying 00:07:51.980 --> 00:07:56.699 10 feet away from anything that's happening anywhere 00:07:56.699 --> 00:07:58.959 in the world right now. So we're doing bread 00:07:58.959 --> 00:08:03.800 and we're doing bread because I am making my 00:08:03.800 --> 00:08:08.680 very own sourdough starter. Oh my goodness. So 00:08:08.680 --> 00:08:11.000 like I've, I mean, we're not going to get too 00:08:11.000 --> 00:08:12.959 deep into this. Don't worry. But like I have 00:08:12.959 --> 00:08:15.379 always loved sourdough bread. I mean, obviously 00:08:15.379 --> 00:08:19.319 look at me. I love all bread, but I am like very 00:08:19.319 --> 00:08:22.379 intimidated by like the starter part of it. So 00:08:22.379 --> 00:08:25.800 Super excited. I will touch base with you guys 00:08:25.800 --> 00:08:27.800 next week and let you know how my little starters 00:08:27.800 --> 00:08:31.620 growing But so yeah, I've just been thinking 00:08:31.620 --> 00:08:35.720 about bread all the time We're going with it 00:08:35.720 --> 00:08:39.580 Okay, so For those of you who are just listening 00:08:39.580 --> 00:08:44.000 for the first time I'm so sorry, and it's usually 00:08:44.000 --> 00:08:47.080 not this terrible It's usually more put together. 00:08:47.460 --> 00:08:51.539 But so I will not say everybody's name. If it 00:08:51.539 --> 00:08:54.740 is a single animal, I will say their name. But 00:08:54.740 --> 00:08:58.879 if your foster is from a whole litter, I will 00:08:58.879 --> 00:09:02.779 just say the letter of the litter. We have so 00:09:02.779 --> 00:09:05.779 many people that will message me and be like, 00:09:05.940 --> 00:09:09.539 you didn't mention my dog. It's from the litter, 00:09:09.940 --> 00:09:12.379 the sea litter of 11. I'm like, OK, well. it 00:09:12.379 --> 00:09:16.000 was the c letter that i talked about so if you 00:09:16.000 --> 00:09:19.559 have a puppy from a litter i am not going to 00:09:19.559 --> 00:09:23.159 name every single name in that litter okay let's 00:09:23.159 --> 00:09:30.549 go raisin bread she roamed up to an elderly lady's 00:09:30.549 --> 00:09:32.830 house. This is actually the same house as the 00:09:32.830 --> 00:09:35.649 A litter from last week. There's really nothing 00:09:35.649 --> 00:09:37.629 exciting to the story. She just wandered up as 00:09:37.629 --> 00:09:39.470 a stray, but the lady said she's super sweet 00:09:39.470 --> 00:09:42.129 and she's super smart and she is so grateful 00:09:42.129 --> 00:09:43.809 that we've been able to help her with all these 00:09:43.809 --> 00:09:47.070 drop offs. Johnny Cakes, which you cannot tell 00:09:47.070 --> 00:09:48.830 me that that's not the cutest name for a little 00:09:48.830 --> 00:09:51.850 puppy. Johnny Cakes wandered up to an elderly 00:09:51.850 --> 00:09:53.730 lady's house that actually goes to church with 00:09:53.730 --> 00:09:56.299 me or went to church with me when I. lived in 00:09:56.299 --> 00:09:58.720 Boonville. She sent me a picture and asked if 00:09:58.720 --> 00:10:00.659 we could take him. And one of our fosters just 00:10:00.659 --> 00:10:02.620 happened to live right by her. So she went and 00:10:02.620 --> 00:10:05.279 got her, got him within an hour. Like, is that 00:10:05.279 --> 00:10:10.700 service or what? Vienna Bread is from our Alabama 00:10:10.700 --> 00:10:13.100 shelter friends, which, you know, we love them 00:10:13.100 --> 00:10:14.639 to death. They're our favorite shelter to work 00:10:14.639 --> 00:10:17.799 with, but they never have. I shouldn't say never 00:10:17.799 --> 00:10:19.440 because they got a really good story today. They 00:10:19.440 --> 00:10:22.080 usually don't have good stories on theirs, just 00:10:22.080 --> 00:10:26.980 a stray that no one claimed. Nan bread non bread 00:10:26.980 --> 00:10:29.820 I've had it. It's delicious. I don't know how 00:10:29.820 --> 00:10:33.379 to say it again from our Alabama shelter friends 00:10:33.379 --> 00:10:37.379 came in as a stray with ringworm and They cleared 00:10:37.379 --> 00:10:40.720 her up. She's doing great now Garlic bread also 00:10:40.720 --> 00:10:42.980 a fantastic name for this dog. If you meet him, 00:10:43.259 --> 00:10:44.580 you're either gonna be like that's the dumbest 00:10:44.580 --> 00:10:46.580 name I've ever heard or that is the perfect name 00:10:46.580 --> 00:10:49.779 for him Garlic bread. He's our six month old 00:10:49.779 --> 00:10:53.399 chocolate lab He's also from the Alabama shelter. 00:10:53.679 --> 00:10:56.919 He was posted online as like a stray that came 00:10:56.919 --> 00:10:59.600 in and someone commented and was like yeah that's 00:10:59.600 --> 00:11:05.580 my dog I don't want him so they were like okay 00:11:05.580 --> 00:11:09.539 we'll find a rescue and then oh I'm so bummed 00:11:09.539 --> 00:11:12.220 about this part of the reason a small reason 00:11:12.220 --> 00:11:15.399 that I was so pumped about this two van transport 00:11:15.399 --> 00:11:20.440 is because we have two pregnant dogs that Tasha 00:11:20.440 --> 00:11:23.220 and I pulled and by Tasha and I I mean all Tasha 00:11:23.220 --> 00:11:25.659 and I was just texting her going do it do it 00:11:25.659 --> 00:11:28.879 do it do it do it so Tasha went and got these 00:11:28.879 --> 00:11:32.379 two pregnant dogs and I was so excited that they 00:11:32.379 --> 00:11:34.419 were gonna go on transport before they had puppies 00:11:34.419 --> 00:11:38.379 and this dad gone mourning one of them had puppies 00:11:38.379 --> 00:11:41.320 and she didn't get to go so the one that is going 00:11:41.320 --> 00:11:45.559 is called hot cross buns and then the one that 00:11:45.559 --> 00:11:48.039 held back was gonna be named hot dog buns oh 00:11:48.039 --> 00:11:51.720 my goodness so cute but okay so i'm gonna go 00:11:51.720 --> 00:11:54.179 off on a tangent here but stay with me please 00:11:54.179 --> 00:12:00.220 or fast forward i don't care um so a super hot 00:12:00.220 --> 00:12:05.529 topic in the rescue world is abort spays. So 00:12:05.529 --> 00:12:09.990 an abort spay, if you don't know, is when a female 00:12:09.990 --> 00:12:14.590 dog or cat comes in for a spay and they're pregnant. 00:12:15.789 --> 00:12:19.090 Very, very hot button topic in the rescue world. 00:12:19.190 --> 00:12:21.529 And I know I said I'm not touching anything in 00:12:21.529 --> 00:12:23.409 the real world, but, you know, rescue world, 00:12:23.610 --> 00:12:26.009 I'll talk. I'll talk all the tea with you guys 00:12:26.009 --> 00:12:31.080 in the rescue world. So. okay these two dogs 00:12:31.080 --> 00:12:36.320 specifically they were picked up as strays pregnant 00:12:36.320 --> 00:12:41.559 very very pregnant and they were en route to 00:12:41.559 --> 00:12:45.340 a shelter who said we will take them but we're 00:12:45.340 --> 00:12:48.080 gonna spay them as soon as they get here like 00:12:48.080 --> 00:12:52.100 walk in the door spam and then they'll just stay 00:12:52.100 --> 00:12:58.659 at the shelter and here's here's my take i And 00:12:58.659 --> 00:13:02.899 I'm totally team Abort space like they have a 00:13:02.899 --> 00:13:05.659 time they have a place they are I am NOT against 00:13:05.659 --> 00:13:10.299 them actually last week my My father -in -law 00:13:10.299 --> 00:13:13.000 has a barn. He had a random cat show up. She 00:13:13.000 --> 00:13:16.360 had kittens He asked me would I take all the 00:13:16.360 --> 00:13:20.879 kittens? And at that point it was the mom too 00:13:20.879 --> 00:13:23.059 When they were weaned, I'm like, yeah, absolutely 00:13:23.059 --> 00:13:27.340 then all of the kittens died and he like He's 00:13:27.340 --> 00:13:29.379 the sweetest. He's the sweetest man. He like 00:13:29.379 --> 00:13:32.179 literally held her paw while these kittens died. 00:13:32.639 --> 00:13:35.379 And I think it was like inbreeding. They they 00:13:35.379 --> 00:13:38.279 weren't fully formed either. But so all of her 00:13:38.279 --> 00:13:42.240 kittens died and he is like so invested in this 00:13:42.240 --> 00:13:46.039 cat now. So I felt bad and he gives us free pine 00:13:46.039 --> 00:13:47.659 shavings all the time for our dog kennel. So 00:13:47.659 --> 00:13:50.220 he saves us a ton of money So I called Dr. Byrne. 00:13:50.220 --> 00:13:52.039 I'm like, what do you think about me spaying 00:13:52.039 --> 00:13:55.200 the cat for him for free? Because he saves us 00:13:55.200 --> 00:13:58.240 so much money and we were going to spay the cat 00:13:58.240 --> 00:14:01.000 anyways, whether with us or for him She's like, 00:14:01.120 --> 00:14:05.240 yeah 100 % Absolutely. So She had just given 00:14:05.240 --> 00:14:08.220 birth. So I told him, you know, let's wait four 00:14:08.220 --> 00:14:10.759 weeks till she dries up when her milk dries up 00:14:10.759 --> 00:14:13.399 a little bit and then We'll go ahead and get 00:14:13.399 --> 00:14:16.399 her spayed. So four weeks goes by We take her 00:14:16.399 --> 00:14:19.379 to the vet to be spayed and they call me and 00:14:19.379 --> 00:14:23.940 they're like, hey, she's pregnant What they're 00:14:23.940 --> 00:14:26.320 like, yeah, she's probably got I don't know two 00:14:26.320 --> 00:14:28.480 or three weeks left and then she'll have kittens 00:14:28.480 --> 00:14:33.350 Do you want us to just spare? gosh it's been 00:14:33.350 --> 00:14:36.029 four like her kittens if they lived would be 00:14:36.029 --> 00:14:38.490 four weeks old and she's already about to have 00:14:38.490 --> 00:14:40.870 more kittens so i'm like yeah obviously spay 00:14:40.870 --> 00:14:43.590 her her kittens clearly didn't do well and like 00:14:43.590 --> 00:14:46.289 she just went through this her body does not 00:14:46.289 --> 00:14:48.330 need to go through this again it's way too soon 00:14:48.330 --> 00:14:53.370 so we abort spayed her to me that makes sense 00:14:53.370 --> 00:14:58.129 so we get a call the other day about these two 00:14:58.129 --> 00:15:01.190 pregnant mama dogs and the shelter was like bring 00:15:01.190 --> 00:15:05.570 them in we'll spay them and here is my issue 00:15:05.570 --> 00:15:10.370 with that if these were just going to be spayed 00:15:10.370 --> 00:15:14.190 and put back out on the street as stray dogs 00:15:14.190 --> 00:15:18.850 whatever absolutely 100 % abort spay these dogs 00:15:18.850 --> 00:15:23.230 they do not need to be homeless and raising babies 00:15:23.230 --> 00:15:26.940 like there's no way Or, you know, if this was 00:15:26.940 --> 00:15:30.120 some owner who brought their dog in and they're 00:15:30.120 --> 00:15:31.919 like, listen, we do not want to deal with finding 00:15:31.919 --> 00:15:34.379 homes for puppies. Go ahead and spare. Absolutely. 00:15:35.399 --> 00:15:39.519 But the unfortunate truth in the rescue world 00:15:39.519 --> 00:15:44.860 is that pregnant moms get bumped to the top of 00:15:44.860 --> 00:15:48.000 the priority list. And I know that that sounds 00:15:48.000 --> 00:15:53.259 bad. Like I, I could take these dogs way faster 00:15:53.259 --> 00:15:58.980 pregnant. than just random adult dogs. And the 00:15:58.980 --> 00:16:00.960 reason is like, I know it sounds terrible, but 00:16:00.960 --> 00:16:04.820 the reason is like we prioritize puppies because 00:16:04.820 --> 00:16:10.399 puppies grow. So I can send 10 puppies in two 00:16:10.399 --> 00:16:13.120 crates when they're eight weeks old or whatever. 00:16:14.000 --> 00:16:17.639 But when they're eight months old, I now have 00:16:17.639 --> 00:16:23.779 to have 10 crates for those 10 puppies. So. Get 00:16:23.779 --> 00:16:26.879 them out sooner so that you can fit more and 00:16:26.879 --> 00:16:32.019 you can save more lives well same thing for mama 00:16:32.019 --> 00:16:36.360 dogs like if it is a Adult dog that's not pregnant. 00:16:36.399 --> 00:16:39.860 It's not gonna get any bigger like there's no 00:16:39.860 --> 00:16:42.539 True urgency if it's like, you know in a foster 00:16:42.539 --> 00:16:44.559 home, it's safe. Nothing's gonna happen to it 00:16:44.559 --> 00:16:46.980 it can wait and we can probably word I see these 00:16:46.980 --> 00:16:49.879 other ones who are going to give birth and then 00:16:49.879 --> 00:16:52.809 need more room in the crate or you know, puppies 00:16:52.809 --> 00:16:55.110 who are running everywhere gonna get run over 00:16:55.110 --> 00:16:57.389 and are getting bigger, you know, by the week. 00:16:58.110 --> 00:17:03.169 So we can save pregnant mama dogs way faster 00:17:03.169 --> 00:17:07.029 than we can save random not pregnant dogs, which 00:17:07.029 --> 00:17:09.849 is unfortunate and I hate it and it sucks, but 00:17:09.849 --> 00:17:13.869 it's the way it is. So. for this shelter who 00:17:13.869 --> 00:17:17.390 clearly knows that to say like yeah we'll go 00:17:17.390 --> 00:17:19.490 ahead and abort spay them because we don't want 00:17:19.490 --> 00:17:21.549 to deal with the puppies here absolutely that 00:17:21.549 --> 00:17:23.869 makes sense no one wants puppies in a shelter 00:17:23.869 --> 00:17:29.869 but like you could find so many rescues to take 00:17:29.869 --> 00:17:33.849 pregnant dogs way faster so i called Tasha and 00:17:33.849 --> 00:17:37.210 i was like listen I don't know for sure when 00:17:37.210 --> 00:17:38.849 I'll be able to take them, but I can take them 00:17:38.849 --> 00:17:41.750 way quicker if they're still pregnant than I 00:17:41.750 --> 00:17:47.349 can if they're not pregnant. So she called the 00:17:47.349 --> 00:17:49.710 the finder that had picked them up and was taking 00:17:49.710 --> 00:17:51.269 them to the shelter and was like, hey, bring 00:17:51.269 --> 00:17:52.930 them to me. I'm going to foster them instead. 00:17:53.650 --> 00:17:56.289 We asked one of our wolf trap fosters if she 00:17:56.289 --> 00:17:57.849 would take both of them. She was like, yeah, 00:17:57.869 --> 00:18:01.089 sure. Boom. Done like going to send them up this 00:18:01.089 --> 00:18:03.869 weekend. There's no way that we would have gotten 00:18:03.869 --> 00:18:06.980 fosters. this fast for them if they weren't pregnant 00:18:06.980 --> 00:18:09.940 and jokes on us anyways because the one gave 00:18:09.940 --> 00:18:12.859 birth before she even got to go. So anyways all 00:18:12.859 --> 00:18:16.500 that to say I know that abort spays are a touchy 00:18:16.500 --> 00:18:20.819 subject in the rescue world. I definitely think 00:18:20.819 --> 00:18:25.339 they have a time and a place and I mean also 00:18:25.339 --> 00:18:27.420 can we talk about the fact that they were going 00:18:27.420 --> 00:18:31.200 to abort spay this mama dog's puppies when she 00:18:31.200 --> 00:18:35.450 gave birth today? Like this was Wednesday? Thursday 00:18:35.450 --> 00:18:39.950 That's insane. Like that's they're way too. Those 00:18:39.950 --> 00:18:43.490 are actual puppies Okay, I don't want to get 00:18:43.490 --> 00:18:48.170 too Too into it but like abort space when they're 00:18:48.170 --> 00:18:51.890 you know, barely pregnant is just a spay Abort 00:18:51.890 --> 00:18:55.210 space when they're actually full -grown viable 00:18:55.210 --> 00:19:00.670 animals is euthanasia like like the actual technique 00:19:00.670 --> 00:19:08.799 so This is why I usually have a script. Oh, and 00:19:08.799 --> 00:19:13.940 it's also way, way, way riskier on the animals 00:19:13.940 --> 00:19:17.420 to be spayed when they're full term pregnant. 00:19:18.640 --> 00:19:21.619 So, I don't know. It's a very touchy subject, 00:19:21.759 --> 00:19:27.420 obviously. Okay, on to English muffin. I love 00:19:27.420 --> 00:19:29.789 her. And I love that she's getting to go this 00:19:29.789 --> 00:19:32.369 transport so that I could name her English muffin. 00:19:33.049 --> 00:19:36.289 She was seen running near a busy road for months, 00:19:36.369 --> 00:19:39.369 literally. They could tell she was super mangy 00:19:39.369 --> 00:19:42.130 and bald and she was just so tiny and so pitiful. 00:19:42.490 --> 00:19:45.970 People tried for weeks to catch her, like rescues, 00:19:46.490 --> 00:19:51.069 rescuers, random people, everybody. So there 00:19:51.069 --> 00:19:53.430 were so many Facebook posts made about this dog, 00:19:53.470 --> 00:19:57.430 more than I can count. Because so many people 00:19:57.430 --> 00:19:59.549 were just so worried that like she would get 00:19:59.549 --> 00:20:01.490 run over before anyone would be able to catch 00:20:01.490 --> 00:20:04.529 her Finally our rescue partner Tasha good old 00:20:04.529 --> 00:20:08.109 Tasha was able to trap to trap her and Get her 00:20:08.109 --> 00:20:10.410 to one of her fosters who's had her for the last 00:20:10.410 --> 00:20:13.289 several weeks now, and she is just so healthy 00:20:13.289 --> 00:20:18.269 and so happy Such such a this is why we rescue 00:20:18.269 --> 00:20:22.890 This is why we do it because this is Such a good. 00:20:22.910 --> 00:20:26.009 She was so feral. She was so terrified and now 00:20:26.009 --> 00:20:29.190 she just wants to be loved and petted all the 00:20:29.190 --> 00:20:35.670 time. Love it. Unlovin' Bread is a purebred Cocker 00:20:35.670 --> 00:20:38.069 Spaniel. Oh my goodness. I almost took her home 00:20:38.069 --> 00:20:41.509 with me today. She was so precious. She was brought 00:20:41.509 --> 00:20:45.569 into Dr. Jamie's clinic. If you're a new listener, 00:20:45.809 --> 00:20:49.029 Dr. Jamie is one of Dr. Burton's vet students 00:20:49.029 --> 00:20:51.950 from Mississippi State. who turned out to be 00:20:51.950 --> 00:20:55.730 her lifelong best friend. And she has a clinic 00:20:55.730 --> 00:20:58.430 in a nearby town. We help her with her strays. 00:20:58.490 --> 00:21:02.390 She helps us with low cost surgeries. And so 00:21:02.390 --> 00:21:05.650 this dog was brought in as a stray. Dr. Jamie, 00:21:05.769 --> 00:21:07.950 they don't have animal control or shelter there. 00:21:07.950 --> 00:21:10.410 So it's like pretty much just Dr. Jamie. She 00:21:10.410 --> 00:21:13.210 posted on the clinic's Facebook page, you know, 00:21:13.230 --> 00:21:16.069 is anyone missing this dog? Let us know. No one 00:21:16.069 --> 00:21:19.220 came forward. No one wanted her. I think she 00:21:19.220 --> 00:21:20.940 said something like, is this anyone's dog? I 00:21:20.940 --> 00:21:25.099 was like, it's my dog. So after the stray hold 00:21:25.099 --> 00:21:27.920 was up, Tasha went and got her and she's been 00:21:27.920 --> 00:21:33.299 fostering her. Artisan, who is actually known 00:21:33.299 --> 00:21:38.000 as Redford down here, was at a local kill shelter 00:21:38.000 --> 00:21:43.059 and that kill shelter actually shut down. and 00:21:43.059 --> 00:21:46.460 close the doors. So he was the very last dog 00:21:46.460 --> 00:21:49.279 there because he was heartworm positive and no 00:21:49.279 --> 00:21:52.599 one wanted him. So here we go again. Good old 00:21:52.599 --> 00:21:56.779 Tasha. She helped. She basically ran that shelter. 00:21:57.240 --> 00:21:59.619 And then when she stepped down, that's why the 00:21:59.619 --> 00:22:04.029 whole thing. Shut down So Tasha took him paid 00:22:04.029 --> 00:22:06.970 for his heartworm treatment through dr. Jamie 00:22:06.970 --> 00:22:09.990 Got him through all the treatments and now he 00:22:09.990 --> 00:22:12.690 is heartworm negative and ready for his freedom 00:22:12.690 --> 00:22:16.569 ride Okay, I'm actually super super proud of 00:22:16.569 --> 00:22:21.289 these next two names. It's two dogs one is solid 00:22:21.289 --> 00:22:26.130 white Totally white and the other is like a tan 00:22:26.130 --> 00:22:30.779 dirty blonde color Okay, the white one is white 00:22:30.779 --> 00:22:36.339 bread and the tan one is whole wheat bread. Oh 00:22:36.339 --> 00:22:38.519 My goodness, I love it. I think that is like 00:22:38.519 --> 00:22:41.700 the best duo name I've ever done makes me laugh 00:22:41.700 --> 00:22:44.740 every time I think about it So white bread and 00:22:44.740 --> 00:22:47.460 whole wheat bread were dumped at a church near 00:22:48.160 --> 00:22:51.220 Tasha's house, and they eventually wander down 00:22:51.220 --> 00:22:53.480 to her house where she took them in and got them 00:22:53.480 --> 00:22:56.079 vetted, including spaying and neutering them 00:22:56.079 --> 00:22:58.900 with her own money just to better their chances 00:22:58.900 --> 00:23:01.680 that a rescue would take them. Full disclosure, 00:23:01.680 --> 00:23:05.019 we actually thought that White Bread was Whole 00:23:05.019 --> 00:23:07.700 Wheat Bread's mom. We thought she was like a 00:23:07.700 --> 00:23:09.960 year and a half old. One vet thought that she 00:23:09.960 --> 00:23:11.380 was a year and a half, and the other vet thought 00:23:11.380 --> 00:23:14.039 she was six months old and probably his litter 00:23:14.039 --> 00:23:17.589 mate instead. So I don't know. They could not 00:23:17.589 --> 00:23:20.829 even be related at all in the end. I don't know. 00:23:21.569 --> 00:23:23.670 We'll see what Dr. Burton thinks in the morning. 00:23:23.690 --> 00:23:26.650 Hopefully she'll be the tiebreaker. But like 00:23:26.650 --> 00:23:29.730 watch her say, this dog is eight years old. No, 00:23:29.750 --> 00:23:32.670 I think they probably are close in age and I 00:23:32.670 --> 00:23:37.509 think they probably are related somehow. The 00:23:37.509 --> 00:23:40.690 P litter of three showed up at someone's house 00:23:40.690 --> 00:23:44.450 and she asked her neighbor who is one of our 00:23:44.450 --> 00:23:48.579 fosters if we would take them. The C litter of 00:23:48.579 --> 00:23:53.440 seven. So, you know, we have like litter names 00:23:53.440 --> 00:23:58.319 down here just for our record keeping. So like, 00:23:58.319 --> 00:24:00.059 you know, just so we can keep track of who we're 00:24:00.059 --> 00:24:03.180 talking about. Well, this litter is called the 00:24:03.180 --> 00:24:06.900 CPS puppies, the Child Protective Services puppies, 00:24:07.779 --> 00:24:09.380 which is not, it's not funny. It's not a funny 00:24:09.380 --> 00:24:11.839 story at all. But it is funny that Child Protective 00:24:11.839 --> 00:24:16.779 Services is about puppies. instead of children. 00:24:17.160 --> 00:24:21.319 Like that's so on par for our lives. Well, animal 00:24:21.319 --> 00:24:24.900 control called us about a lady who called him, 00:24:25.200 --> 00:24:26.900 but she lived out in the county so there was 00:24:26.900 --> 00:24:28.559 nothing he could do because he can only help 00:24:28.559 --> 00:24:31.960 in the city limits. So the lady called him and 00:24:31.960 --> 00:24:34.380 said that she had a mama dog who had puppies 00:24:34.380 --> 00:24:38.619 and CPS told her that she could not have her 00:24:38.619 --> 00:24:43.049 kids back until she got rid of the puppies. I 00:24:43.049 --> 00:24:46.029 don't know this, but I am assuming it's because 00:24:46.029 --> 00:24:49.849 of like unsanitary reasons. You know, like the 00:24:49.849 --> 00:24:52.769 puppies were in her house. I'm assuming she didn't 00:24:52.769 --> 00:24:55.450 clean up well after them. Maybe it was allergies. 00:24:55.509 --> 00:24:57.789 I don't know. I would assume it's because she 00:24:57.789 --> 00:25:00.710 didn't clean up after them. So we were like, 00:25:00.789 --> 00:25:02.509 oh, my gosh, we have to help this lady get her 00:25:02.509 --> 00:25:04.750 kids back. Obviously, let's go get these puppies. 00:25:05.309 --> 00:25:08.950 So. When we went to get them, she had them all 00:25:08.950 --> 00:25:11.569 in the bathroom and she let them come out and 00:25:11.569 --> 00:25:14.869 she would scream at them and slap them every 00:25:14.869 --> 00:25:19.460 time they peed or pooped on the floor. So we 00:25:19.460 --> 00:25:21.559 went from being like, oh my gosh, we got to help 00:25:21.559 --> 00:25:23.640 this lady to, oh my gosh, we got to help these 00:25:23.640 --> 00:25:28.059 puppies. We have to get them out of here. They 00:25:28.059 --> 00:25:31.680 were super, super, super skinny, very dehydrated 00:25:31.680 --> 00:25:34.140 when we got them. And some of them had started 00:25:34.140 --> 00:25:38.279 losing their hair. And then several of them completely 00:25:38.279 --> 00:25:41.059 lost their hair, like within the next few days. 00:25:41.200 --> 00:25:43.140 So they've all been treated for mange. They're 00:25:43.140 --> 00:25:47.440 all doing fantastic now and. their hair's growing 00:25:47.440 --> 00:25:49.200 back and they look great. They're going to be 00:25:49.200 --> 00:25:51.599 super stinking cute when their hair comes back 00:25:51.599 --> 00:25:54.359 all the way. And I don't know if she got her 00:25:54.359 --> 00:25:56.079 kids back. I don't know. I don't know what happened 00:25:56.079 --> 00:26:01.180 with that. The Bee Mom and her litter of 10 puppies 00:26:01.180 --> 00:26:04.000 is a crazy story. And that's so funny because 00:26:04.000 --> 00:26:06.759 they are from our Alabama shelter friends who 00:26:06.759 --> 00:26:09.559 I just said never have good stories. But this 00:26:09.559 --> 00:26:15.420 is actually a super wild story. So we have The 00:26:15.420 --> 00:26:18.640 way our towns are we have a four -lane highway 00:26:18.640 --> 00:26:22.099 that runs through it and so on one side of the 00:26:22.099 --> 00:26:25.660 highway there's a loves gas station and then 00:26:25.660 --> 00:26:29.619 across the street is I actually don't know what 00:26:29.619 --> 00:26:31.259 the other kind of gas station is but it's another 00:26:31.259 --> 00:26:33.220 gas station and it's not as nice as loves because 00:26:33.220 --> 00:26:37.240 I always stop at the loves but there is this 00:26:37.240 --> 00:26:40.769 mom dog who lives at loves just in the parking 00:26:40.769 --> 00:26:44.150 lot and behind the gas station and in the mornings, 00:26:44.170 --> 00:26:47.750 you know, like everyone has the routines. They 00:26:47.750 --> 00:26:49.750 stop, you know, at the same places for breakfast 00:26:49.750 --> 00:26:53.029 at the same times a day, you know, and and they 00:26:53.029 --> 00:26:54.809 see the same people at the same time. You know 00:26:54.809 --> 00:26:59.430 what I mean? So. These people all got used to 00:26:59.430 --> 00:27:01.970 seeing her and they would give her, you know, 00:27:02.029 --> 00:27:05.470 like they'd buy her biscuit at breakfast or they'd 00:27:05.470 --> 00:27:10.269 buy her a chicken patty at lunch. She's a sick 00:27:10.269 --> 00:27:13.789 girl. She's really well fed. So she would... 00:27:13.579 --> 00:27:15.720 be at love's in the morning. And then like when 00:27:15.720 --> 00:27:18.539 that rush would die down, she would cross the 00:27:18.539 --> 00:27:21.519 street, cross the four lane highway where cars 00:27:21.519 --> 00:27:25.319 are going 75, 80 miles an hour. And I am confident 00:27:25.319 --> 00:27:27.220 that some people are doing 80 because I am one 00:27:27.220 --> 00:27:31.200 of them. So she would cross the highway and go 00:27:31.200 --> 00:27:33.359 to the other gas station and like be bop around 00:27:33.359 --> 00:27:37.430 and see if any of them would feed her and. She 00:27:37.430 --> 00:27:40.250 was like real friendly, but very like don't touch 00:27:40.250 --> 00:27:43.750 me very skittish so no one could actually catch 00:27:43.750 --> 00:27:46.789 her they could just feed her and then Everyone 00:27:46.789 --> 00:27:48.529 noticed she was pregnant and everyone was like, 00:27:48.529 --> 00:27:50.650 okay, like it's all fun and games until there's 00:27:50.650 --> 00:27:54.670 babies involved and The shelter was trying to 00:27:54.670 --> 00:27:56.930 from what I understand the shelter was trying 00:27:56.930 --> 00:27:58.670 to catch her and was kind of telling everyone 00:27:58.670 --> 00:28:00.630 You know, like don't fear so that she'll be hungry. 00:28:00.630 --> 00:28:03.349 So she'll go in our trap but I mean how do you 00:28:03.349 --> 00:28:05.109 tell people that that are just like you know 00:28:05.109 --> 00:28:07.150 from out of state passing through on this four 00:28:07.150 --> 00:28:10.349 lane highway so she never went in the trap then 00:28:10.349 --> 00:28:12.990 she had her babies and then it was like all right 00:28:12.990 --> 00:28:14.369 all right we really got to buckle down we got 00:28:14.369 --> 00:28:19.369 to get them so I think the babies were maybe 00:28:19.369 --> 00:28:23.410 two weeks old as very much still needed their 00:28:23.410 --> 00:28:26.250 mom like not eating on their own not walking 00:28:26.250 --> 00:28:30.670 around not wandering and they had a rescuer a 00:28:30.670 --> 00:28:33.720 local rescuer who was working literally every 00:28:33.720 --> 00:28:35.940 single day trying to catch this mom and her puppies 00:28:35.940 --> 00:28:40.599 and she went one morning and the mom was like 00:28:40.599 --> 00:28:46.140 freaking out no puppies anywhere nowhere and 00:28:46.140 --> 00:28:49.559 so we were all like this is really weird I mean 00:28:49.559 --> 00:28:51.420 not me I wasn't involved in this but looking 00:28:51.420 --> 00:28:54.039 back I that's what I would have said but like 00:28:54.039 --> 00:28:56.460 everyone was like this is really weird so she 00:28:56.460 --> 00:28:58.900 ended up like going straight into the into the 00:28:58.900 --> 00:29:00.660 trap I don't know if she was looking for her 00:29:00.660 --> 00:29:02.640 babies or I don't know what was going on or if 00:29:02.640 --> 00:29:04.720 she just knew, hey, I need help. She went in 00:29:04.720 --> 00:29:09.079 the trap. They got her to the shelter. They combed 00:29:09.079 --> 00:29:11.880 the area. They combed like across the highway 00:29:11.880 --> 00:29:15.599 at the other gas station everywhere. No one could 00:29:15.599 --> 00:29:17.200 find these puppies. No one knew what happened 00:29:17.200 --> 00:29:19.500 to them. Again, like they're they couldn't walk. 00:29:19.839 --> 00:29:22.420 They're newborn babies. Like they're not wandering 00:29:22.420 --> 00:29:25.400 into the highway. They're like in a pile all 00:29:25.400 --> 00:29:30.299 the time. So five days goes by. They are making 00:29:30.299 --> 00:29:32.640 Facebook posts everywhere. Everyone's like, like 00:29:32.640 --> 00:29:35.019 if you have them, if you picked them up and you 00:29:35.019 --> 00:29:37.400 didn't know, like just bring them back. No questions 00:29:37.400 --> 00:29:44.069 asked. People... This is not funny People were 00:29:44.069 --> 00:29:46.829 bringing in their own puppies to the shelter 00:29:46.829 --> 00:29:49.490 and they'd be like I found these do you think 00:29:49.490 --> 00:29:51.309 these are the missing puppies and they're like 00:29:51.309 --> 00:29:55.309 no We know what the puppies look like they didn't 00:29:55.309 --> 00:29:58.309 look like those like we know We know that her 00:29:58.309 --> 00:30:00.769 two week old puppies are not your eight week 00:30:00.769 --> 00:30:02.490 old puppies that you're just trying to surrender 00:30:02.490 --> 00:30:05.309 now But that tickled me so bad that people were 00:30:05.309 --> 00:30:07.910 like, oh we can use this we can we can pawn our 00:30:07.910 --> 00:30:11.990 puppies up anyways Back to her story. So they 00:30:11.990 --> 00:30:15.109 made a Facebook post and they were like, listen, 00:30:15.869 --> 00:30:18.430 her milk is drying up like it's now or never. 00:30:18.430 --> 00:30:21.809 If we wait too long, she's not going to be able 00:30:21.809 --> 00:30:23.230 to take them back in. We're going to have to 00:30:23.230 --> 00:30:25.930 find bottle feeders if we get them back. We will 00:30:25.930 --> 00:30:30.069 give a five hundred dollar reward to anybody, 00:30:30.069 --> 00:30:32.250 you know, who who brings these puppies back. 00:30:32.369 --> 00:30:35.029 No questions asked. Well, nobody brought them 00:30:35.029 --> 00:30:38.529 in. Nobody got the money. But somebody called 00:30:39.019 --> 00:30:42.319 or alerted someone at the gas station who called 00:30:42.319 --> 00:30:47.980 the shelter and a box with the puppies in it 00:30:47.980 --> 00:30:53.400 mysteriously showed up like in the in the it's 00:30:53.400 --> 00:30:56.740 not a field but like the grassy area behind the 00:30:56.740 --> 00:30:59.369 gas station and it was her puppies All the puppies 00:30:59.369 --> 00:31:03.150 were returned in a box. So the shelter ran down 00:31:03.150 --> 00:31:05.130 there, got them, got them back to this mom. She 00:31:05.130 --> 00:31:08.150 was so, so, so, so happy to see her babies again. 00:31:08.930 --> 00:31:12.210 Remind me all my all my OGs that are listening, 00:31:12.210 --> 00:31:14.950 remind me to post the video on the foster's page, 00:31:14.950 --> 00:31:17.430 because it is so sweet when she gets her babies 00:31:17.430 --> 00:31:21.450 back after all these days. And so anyways, I 00:31:21.450 --> 00:31:26.890 text the the shelter manager and I'm like, listen, 00:31:27.800 --> 00:31:30.420 I want these." And she's like, well, 10 other 00:31:30.420 --> 00:31:33.500 rescues have stepped up for this mom. And I'm 00:31:33.500 --> 00:31:35.839 like, ugh, I knew it. Like, that's such a good 00:31:35.839 --> 00:31:38.380 story. I knew so many rescuers would want her. 00:31:38.700 --> 00:31:40.200 And I'm like, all right, well, good. Like, I'm 00:31:40.200 --> 00:31:43.759 glad she's getting a rescue. And the next day, 00:31:43.779 --> 00:31:45.980 she texted me and she was like, when would they 00:31:45.980 --> 00:31:49.190 leave if we let you have her? I was like... When 00:31:49.190 --> 00:31:51.630 do you want her to leave like I want her so bad 00:31:51.630 --> 00:31:54.250 and so she was like we talked about it like you're 00:31:54.250 --> 00:31:56.230 the only rescue that Consistently pulls from 00:31:56.230 --> 00:31:58.549 us. So like if you want her she's yours and I 00:31:58.549 --> 00:32:01.230 was like, yes I cannot believe we got her we 00:32:01.230 --> 00:32:04.089 got cuz like she was famous I mean not famous 00:32:04.089 --> 00:32:07.089 but you know like like in our town in our little 00:32:07.089 --> 00:32:10.819 area like Everyone knew her. Everyone knew that 00:32:10.819 --> 00:32:13.000 her babies were stolen. Everyone was looking, 00:32:13.220 --> 00:32:15.220 everyone was like, you know, where did these 00:32:15.220 --> 00:32:17.299 puppies come from? Are these her puppies? So 00:32:17.299 --> 00:32:19.640 like the fact that we got her, I am just so excited. 00:32:19.680 --> 00:32:22.119 She's like a little celebrity and she's just 00:32:22.119 --> 00:32:25.779 a great dog and she deserves a wolf trap. Happy 00:32:25.779 --> 00:32:32.240 ending. The S mom and her litter of 12 puppies 00:32:32.240 --> 00:32:36.539 so insane the mom was dumped super super super 00:32:36.539 --> 00:32:40.880 super pregnant at a local high school and Everyone 00:32:40.880 --> 00:32:43.880 was posting looking for a rescue. No rescue stepped 00:32:43.880 --> 00:32:50.180 up even me. I did not step up and Tasha's Foster 00:32:50.180 --> 00:32:53.039 stepped up and she took it took the dog in and 00:32:53.039 --> 00:32:57.349 four days later. She had puppies and then I can't 00:32:57.349 --> 00:32:58.869 even remember why I said no at the time. I think 00:32:58.869 --> 00:33:01.589 we just had too many and then things slow down 00:33:01.589 --> 00:33:04.329 and I told Tasha I would take her and Tasha was 00:33:04.329 --> 00:33:06.529 super excited and now I'm super excited. She's 00:33:06.529 --> 00:33:09.589 a great dog and her puppies are so cute. Okay, 00:33:09.589 --> 00:33:14.089 that is all the puppy stories now for the cats 00:33:14.089 --> 00:33:18.890 and I'm gonna go way faster. I promise. Lavish? 00:33:19.089 --> 00:33:21.349 Is that how you say it? Lavash? Maybe it's lavash. 00:33:21.650 --> 00:33:27.859 Lavish? Lavish? She came in as a stray feral 00:33:27.859 --> 00:33:31.559 cat. to the Alabama shelter, but she's super, 00:33:31.559 --> 00:33:34.400 super friendly now, super sweet. The tea litter 00:33:34.400 --> 00:33:37.579 of two kittens were bottle babies at the Alabama 00:33:37.579 --> 00:33:39.779 shelter that came in as strays that were just 00:33:39.779 --> 00:33:43.880 orphans. And they're eating real food and doing 00:33:43.880 --> 00:33:47.019 great now. Dave's killer bread. OK, this is really 00:33:47.019 --> 00:33:50.000 funny to me because this is Jessica's kitten 00:33:50.000 --> 00:33:53.839 and Jessica's husband's name is Dave and Dave. 00:33:55.140 --> 00:33:58.779 I remember. Dave telling me that their son their 00:33:58.779 --> 00:34:02.660 adult son had never had white bread before and 00:34:02.660 --> 00:34:04.220 he was like white bread's really bad for you 00:34:04.220 --> 00:34:07.099 like we don't Eat white bread. I'm like, what 00:34:07.099 --> 00:34:09.340 do you guys eat? He's like we eat like healthy 00:34:09.340 --> 00:34:13.039 whole grain whatever bread So one of the breads 00:34:13.039 --> 00:34:16.199 that they liked was Dave's killer bread. Well, 00:34:16.219 --> 00:34:18.239 anyways now with all of Jessica's health issues 00:34:18.239 --> 00:34:21.159 They don't eat any bread of any kind, but I thought 00:34:21.159 --> 00:34:24.519 that was so funny that I named Dave's cat Dave's 00:34:24.519 --> 00:34:28.940 killer bread. Anyways, this kitten is from the 00:34:28.940 --> 00:34:32.559 seed litter from last week that we held this 00:34:32.559 --> 00:34:34.760 one back because he was just real tiny and real 00:34:34.760 --> 00:34:37.380 skinny. We actually got these over a month ago. 00:34:37.519 --> 00:34:41.199 They had been losing weight drastically with 00:34:41.199 --> 00:34:44.960 the foster that they were with. And so Jessica 00:34:44.960 --> 00:34:46.980 took them in when they were about five weeks 00:34:46.980 --> 00:34:50.019 old and they weighed less than half a pound. 00:34:51.820 --> 00:34:54.719 That's a lot like they should have been closer 00:34:54.719 --> 00:34:57.460 to two pounds and they didn't even weigh close 00:34:57.460 --> 00:35:00.719 to one pound. So we really didn't know if he 00:35:00.719 --> 00:35:02.380 was going to make it the first few nights. But 00:35:02.380 --> 00:35:06.940 after lots of medicine and TLC from Jessica and 00:35:06.940 --> 00:35:09.039 Dave, he finally started to get a good appetite 00:35:09.039 --> 00:35:12.219 and started gaining weight. He's had more baths 00:35:12.219 --> 00:35:15.000 in the last month than most cats do their whole 00:35:15.000 --> 00:35:19.780 life because he was just so Gross and just leaking 00:35:19.780 --> 00:35:25.519 poop He's probably never gonna love water and 00:35:25.519 --> 00:35:28.500 he's been having the best time as an only child 00:35:28.500 --> 00:35:34.480 at Jessica's house There is a guy in town I actually 00:35:34.480 --> 00:35:39.590 went to high school with him and he's like Like 00:35:39.590 --> 00:35:42.369 a cat lady, but he's a guy like cats are just 00:35:42.369 --> 00:35:45.170 like drawn to him or he's drawn to cats I don't 00:35:45.170 --> 00:35:47.949 know. Anyways, we take random cats from him all 00:35:47.949 --> 00:35:50.110 the time that he just finds well he called us 00:35:50.110 --> 00:35:53.389 the other day and he said a Cat had shown up 00:35:53.389 --> 00:35:55.510 at his friend's house with a really swollen eye 00:35:55.510 --> 00:35:58.150 so he went and got the cat and he took it home 00:35:58.150 --> 00:36:01.929 and put it in his bathroom and Literally texted 00:36:01.929 --> 00:36:05.170 Jessica a hundred times a day. Like what do I 00:36:05.170 --> 00:36:07.320 do? What can I do? Can you do anything? What 00:36:07.320 --> 00:36:09.679 should we do? What are we going to do? Jessica 00:36:09.679 --> 00:36:11.519 was finally like, Oh my gosh, I'm just going 00:36:11.519 --> 00:36:13.679 to take the cat. So he'll leave me alone. So 00:36:13.679 --> 00:36:16.000 she picked up the cat and she was like, the eye 00:36:16.000 --> 00:36:17.920 does look pretty bad. So she took it to our vet 00:36:17.920 --> 00:36:23.320 and our vet said that he has an abscess on his 00:36:23.320 --> 00:36:25.980 eye, in his eye, I don't know, probably from 00:36:25.980 --> 00:36:28.619 a scratch or a bite. So he had to have a drain 00:36:28.619 --> 00:36:32.340 tube in his eye for a week. But now that he has 00:36:32.340 --> 00:36:36.659 the drain tube out, he's totally healthy. literally 00:36:36.659 --> 00:36:40.860 like stuck to us like glue. He is so sweet and 00:36:40.860 --> 00:36:43.300 so friendly. He's going to be a great cat for 00:36:43.300 --> 00:36:47.909 somebody. The M litter of five are owner surrenders 00:36:47.909 --> 00:36:50.909 from a lady that is trying to get her own personal 00:36:50.909 --> 00:36:53.489 stray cat population under control She's worked 00:36:53.489 --> 00:36:56.630 really really hard and takes fantastic care of 00:36:56.630 --> 00:36:59.730 them But she just has so many and these were 00:36:59.730 --> 00:37:01.650 starting to roam and she was terrified that they 00:37:01.650 --> 00:37:04.869 would wander off or get run over so she was super 00:37:04.869 --> 00:37:07.610 happy that we're taking them and Are gonna find 00:37:07.610 --> 00:37:11.090 them wonderful homes and we will be spaying the 00:37:11.090 --> 00:37:16.989 feral mama cat for her So that is all the stories 00:37:16.989 --> 00:37:22.630 for you guys for today. But I do, as always, 00:37:22.929 --> 00:37:27.949 want to end on a really sad note. So we had the... 00:37:27.949 --> 00:37:32.679 what were they? Last week we had... The litter 00:37:32.679 --> 00:37:37.280 of six s the s litter of six From the Wiggles 00:37:37.280 --> 00:37:40.059 Transport they were actually a litter of seven 00:37:40.059 --> 00:37:44.079 and we held one of them back So the way ringworm 00:37:44.079 --> 00:37:47.179 works is like you have to have so many treatments 00:37:47.179 --> 00:37:51.739 within so many weeks for you to not be contagious 00:37:51.739 --> 00:37:54.960 anymore and we had gotten a call about these 00:37:54.960 --> 00:37:57.780 puppies that were under an abandoned house and 00:37:58.849 --> 00:38:00.889 One of our rescue partners went and got them 00:38:00.889 --> 00:38:04.710 all and then got a call Got them home realized 00:38:04.710 --> 00:38:06.849 they all had ringworm started the ringworm treatment 00:38:06.849 --> 00:38:09.150 and then several days later got a call that there 00:38:09.150 --> 00:38:12.110 was one left So she went and got that one and 00:38:12.110 --> 00:38:16.070 that one Started ringworm treatment several days 00:38:16.070 --> 00:38:19.349 after everyone else So everyone else was cleared 00:38:19.349 --> 00:38:21.969 to go on transport and not contagious except 00:38:21.969 --> 00:38:25.019 for this one. So we held it back and it was going 00:38:25.019 --> 00:38:28.960 to go on transport today and so it was it was 00:38:28.960 --> 00:38:32.099 no longer contagious like three days after transport 00:38:32.099 --> 00:38:35.199 like it was no time after transport so the foster 00:38:35.199 --> 00:38:39.199 has had her in her house all the time sleeps 00:38:39.199 --> 00:38:41.179 in the bed with them she takes it to work with 00:38:41.179 --> 00:38:44.340 with her during the day literally the cutest 00:38:44.340 --> 00:38:48.239 sweetest little puppy and they just adored her 00:38:48.239 --> 00:38:53.489 and last night when her husband was pulling into 00:38:53.489 --> 00:38:55.869 the driveway after work, she had the puppy outside 00:38:55.869 --> 00:38:58.489 going to the bathroom and her husband didn't 00:38:58.489 --> 00:39:04.849 see it and ran her over and killed her. So super 00:39:04.849 --> 00:39:08.409 sad story, super sad for them, super sad obviously 00:39:08.409 --> 00:39:15.090 for the puppy. But like that is why we are so, 00:39:15.090 --> 00:39:19.690 so extreme. about getting animals out of here 00:39:19.690 --> 00:39:23.190 as fast as we can. like could we have held half 00:39:23.190 --> 00:39:26.230 these animals back until last until next transport 00:39:26.230 --> 00:39:28.989 and like saved the money from having to pay two 00:39:28.989 --> 00:39:31.010 drivers in a hotel room and like the gas for 00:39:31.010 --> 00:39:34.269 two vans absolutely like from a business standpoint 00:39:34.269 --> 00:39:38.949 this is dumb we should we should never do two 00:39:38.949 --> 00:39:41.590 van transports from a business standpoint but 00:39:41.590 --> 00:39:45.230 like how many of these animals won't be alive 00:39:45.230 --> 00:39:48.289 by next transport This puppy was in a foster 00:39:48.289 --> 00:39:52.670 home, in a wonderful, wonderful, probably our 00:39:52.670 --> 00:39:57.610 best foster home, and she didn't even make it. 00:39:57.949 --> 00:40:00.630 Like, we just we got to get him out of here as 00:40:00.630 --> 00:40:02.949 fast as we can, as many as we can, as fast as 00:40:02.949 --> 00:40:08.829 we can. So that's a lot. This is a well, this 00:40:08.829 --> 00:40:12.150 is like a 40 minute episode again. So I think 00:40:12.150 --> 00:40:15.010 the moral of the story here is I will stick to 00:40:15.010 --> 00:40:20.369 my script from now on and do a better job. But 00:40:20.369 --> 00:40:23.230 if you stuck in till the end, thank you for listening. 00:40:23.809 --> 00:40:25.809 Thank you for fostering. Thank you for supporting 00:40:25.809 --> 00:40:30.110 us. We have our super big, super fun 10 year 00:40:30.110 --> 00:40:33.929 10 year. That's insane. Anniversary party coming 00:40:33.929 --> 00:40:36.809 up next month. I hope everyone will be there. 00:40:36.889 --> 00:40:39.940 I hope you all bring your dogs there. I know 00:40:39.940 --> 00:40:42.260 everyone's wondering if I'm going or not. I don't 00:40:42.260 --> 00:40:45.039 know. I still don't know if I'm going or not. 00:40:45.739 --> 00:40:49.119 Obviously, me, my mom, and Jessica all want to 00:40:49.119 --> 00:40:52.420 go. No, okay, let me say it this way. We want 00:40:52.420 --> 00:40:56.440 to be at it so, so bad. Literally, we want to 00:40:56.440 --> 00:41:00.519 be at it so bad, but none of us want to go to 00:41:00.519 --> 00:41:06.260 it, like travel. And I don't know if the three 00:41:06.260 --> 00:41:10.119 of us have ever left. at the same time like at 00:41:10.119 --> 00:41:12.519 at most two of us leave at the same time and 00:41:12.519 --> 00:41:15.119 one of us stays back to hold down the fort so 00:41:15.119 --> 00:41:17.420 i don't even know if we can i don't even know 00:41:17.420 --> 00:41:21.000 if we will but we really want to and regardless 00:41:21.000 --> 00:41:24.119 we want to see all the pictures from it so everybody 00:41:24.119 --> 00:41:28.159 go get your raffle tickets i am working on collecting 00:41:28.159 --> 00:41:32.710 all of the Raffle items and like the silent auction 00:41:32.710 --> 00:41:34.949 items and we're getting some really good stuff 00:41:34.949 --> 00:41:38.690 in so again If you are a business or you work 00:41:38.690 --> 00:41:43.150 in a business or you know a business and you 00:41:43.150 --> 00:41:45.469 want to donate something like we even have someone 00:41:45.469 --> 00:41:49.670 who The business that she runs doesn't really 00:41:49.670 --> 00:41:52.900 have anything that they can donate to raffle 00:41:52.900 --> 00:41:56.760 or use a silent auction item so instead she's 00:41:56.760 --> 00:41:59.940 donating money and we are using that money to 00:41:59.940 --> 00:42:04.280 buy gift cards from her business so her business 00:42:04.280 --> 00:42:09.079 is still gonna get the um advertisement i guess 00:42:09.079 --> 00:42:13.000 is the word yep that's the word the advertisement 00:42:13.000 --> 00:42:16.900 from it but it'll be like an item that people 00:42:16.900 --> 00:42:22.519 actually want instead of construction Okay, but 00:42:22.519 --> 00:42:26.760 it is almost 1am and I have to go to bed and 00:42:26.760 --> 00:42:30.199 thank you for listening. Thank you for sticking 00:42:30.199 --> 00:42:35.280 through the ads, but we need them so that I can 00:42:35.280 --> 00:42:37.960 one day make enough money from this podcast that 00:42:37.960 --> 00:42:42.440 I can quit my job and do it for free. It's a 00:42:42.440 --> 00:42:44.559 Ruff life, but someone's got to do it.