WEBVTT 00:00:11.259 --> 00:00:15.240 Welcome to Ruff Life. It feels like it has been 00:00:15.240 --> 00:00:19.719 so long since my last episode. We had three weeks 00:00:19.719 --> 00:00:22.719 off because of the 10 -year anniversary party 00:00:22.719 --> 00:00:25.780 and then the Maryland five -star event the next 00:00:25.780 --> 00:00:29.239 weekend that the whole team had to go to. I am 00:00:29.239 --> 00:00:31.640 so disappointed that we didn't get to go to the 00:00:31.640 --> 00:00:35.179 anniversary party. The plan all along or The 00:00:35.179 --> 00:00:39.340 hope really because we had no plans was for all 00:00:39.340 --> 00:00:43.390 of us to come to it. So My mom and stepdad were 00:00:43.390 --> 00:00:46.869 going to drive in because my mom, if you didn't 00:00:46.869 --> 00:00:50.149 know, has stage four terminal cancer. My stepdad 00:00:50.149 --> 00:00:52.869 also has stage four cancer, but we don't care 00:00:52.869 --> 00:00:56.289 as much about him. No, I'm just kidding. His 00:00:56.289 --> 00:00:58.630 prognosis is actually much better than hers and 00:00:58.630 --> 00:01:02.250 so he's fine. Anyways, they were going to drive 00:01:02.250 --> 00:01:04.370 in because they didn't feel comfortable being 00:01:04.370 --> 00:01:07.650 in crowded airports right now with how immunocompromised 00:01:07.650 --> 00:01:11.989 my mom is. So then me and Justin and Mary Sue 00:01:11.989 --> 00:01:14.870 were all going to fly in like a few days early 00:01:14.870 --> 00:01:17.689 and stay with Dr. Burton for a few days before 00:01:17.689 --> 00:01:20.030 the event and just, you know, sightsee and do 00:01:20.030 --> 00:01:23.430 all the fun stuff, hang out at the hospital and 00:01:23.430 --> 00:01:27.170 bother the team. And then Jessica was going to 00:01:27.170 --> 00:01:32.049 fly in the day before the event. So. We really 00:01:32.049 --> 00:01:34.750 were all looking forward to it and then one by 00:01:34.750 --> 00:01:38.450 one we just had to cancel So my mom got sent 00:01:38.450 --> 00:01:41.430 back to MD Anderson Which is about a 15 hour 00:01:41.430 --> 00:01:44.549 drive the opposite direction of Virginia from 00:01:44.549 --> 00:01:47.510 where my mom lives We thought that they would 00:01:47.510 --> 00:01:50.769 be in Texas during the event, but they did actually 00:01:50.769 --> 00:01:53.709 get back the Thursday before the party But that 00:01:53.709 --> 00:01:55.790 was just too much driving for them to then load 00:01:55.790 --> 00:02:00.290 up again for another 13 hour road trip so then 00:02:00.290 --> 00:02:03.629 the plan shifted to just Jessica and I going 00:02:03.629 --> 00:02:06.530 and we were going to fly in Saturday and then 00:02:06.530 --> 00:02:09.389 fly out Sunday right after the party you know 00:02:09.389 --> 00:02:11.830 because I have a baby and Jessica doesn't like 00:02:11.830 --> 00:02:16.310 to leave her house but then Justin woke up the 00:02:16.310 --> 00:02:21.150 Monday before the party with COVID. So I knew 00:02:21.150 --> 00:02:23.750 I would be getting it soon or at the very least 00:02:23.750 --> 00:02:27.210 would be a carrier for it and Jessica's not allowed 00:02:27.210 --> 00:02:30.789 to do fun stuff without me so she wasn't allowed 00:02:30.789 --> 00:02:35.009 to go. It took her out of the running. I did 00:02:35.009 --> 00:02:37.909 end up getting super super sick though so I tested 00:02:37.909 --> 00:02:41.789 positive just a few days later. um before any 00:02:41.789 --> 00:02:45.490 of my symptoms started my doctor put me on paxlovid 00:02:45.490 --> 00:02:48.389 just to like hopefully avoid breaking with it 00:02:48.389 --> 00:02:51.229 and then a few days after that mary sue got it 00:02:51.229 --> 00:02:55.050 mary sue was my 18 month old i was feeling great 00:02:55.050 --> 00:02:57.710 though so i held down the fort took care of mary 00:02:57.710 --> 00:03:00.090 sue who handled it really really well i was really 00:03:00.090 --> 00:03:03.349 impressed she mainly just wanted to snuggle the 00:03:03.349 --> 00:03:07.060 whole time and I took care of Justin who did 00:03:07.060 --> 00:03:11.060 not handle it well and reminded me why I never 00:03:11.060 --> 00:03:14.199 went into nursing school. They both recovered 00:03:14.199 --> 00:03:17.240 the day of the party and I finished my packs 00:03:17.240 --> 00:03:19.319 a little bit around that same time. And then 00:03:19.319 --> 00:03:22.539 about a day or two later, I woke up fairly certain 00:03:22.539 --> 00:03:25.939 that I was going to die. Like I thought I totally 00:03:25.939 --> 00:03:27.759 missed the whole COVID thing and was totally 00:03:27.759 --> 00:03:32.360 fine. And I ended up with rebound COVID, which 00:03:32.360 --> 00:03:36.039 I didn't even know was a thing. apparently it's 00:03:36.039 --> 00:03:38.240 supposed to be not nearly as bad as real covid 00:03:38.240 --> 00:03:41.419 but mine was much worse i guess because i have 00:03:41.419 --> 00:03:44.919 really bad asthma i don't know but my fever never 00:03:44.919 --> 00:03:48.400 got too high it stayed at like around 102 but 00:03:48.400 --> 00:03:51.860 it never broke nothing would like get through 00:03:51.860 --> 00:03:54.969 and and get it to come down for like three days 00:03:54.969 --> 00:03:59.389 which I've never had happen and Justin he's a 00:03:59.389 --> 00:04:01.789 physical therapist so he has to take his patient's 00:04:01.789 --> 00:04:05.289 vitals at every visit. He brought his pulse ox 00:04:05.289 --> 00:04:09.469 in and his pulse ox reader and my oxygen levels 00:04:09.469 --> 00:04:12.889 were like between 81 and 83 one night so it was 00:04:12.889 --> 00:04:15.689 super scary. Still handled it better than Justin 00:04:15.689 --> 00:04:20.319 handled his though and lucky lucky for me Mary 00:04:20.319 --> 00:04:23.480 Sue was still just kind of getting over her so 00:04:23.480 --> 00:04:26.019 she was feeling really good but she was just 00:04:26.019 --> 00:04:27.980 sleeping a lot more than usual which meant that 00:04:27.980 --> 00:04:31.319 I got to sleep a lot too but it was rough and 00:04:31.319 --> 00:04:34.040 I'm really glad that we didn't give that to any 00:04:34.040 --> 00:04:37.180 of you guys and then also just it felt so dumb 00:04:37.180 --> 00:04:40.439 to be like okay let's raise as much money as 00:04:40.439 --> 00:04:45.399 we can also fly us in like I don't know it was 00:04:45.399 --> 00:04:48.720 just um we were like just save the money But, 00:04:48.860 --> 00:04:51.920 so now, because we all have COVID, we hadn't 00:04:51.920 --> 00:04:54.560 seen my mom in like a month because we absolutely 00:04:54.560 --> 00:04:59.100 did not want her to get this COVID. I do think 00:04:59.100 --> 00:05:01.699 that we're all finally over it now. Justin went 00:05:01.699 --> 00:05:03.879 back to work last week, Mary Sue's eating again, 00:05:03.879 --> 00:05:06.620 and I'm not carrying my inhaler with me from 00:05:06.620 --> 00:05:10.040 room to room anymore, so we were really excited 00:05:10.040 --> 00:05:12.379 to go to transport today to see my mom again. 00:05:12.779 --> 00:05:16.870 And Jessica. We always love to see Jessica. Let's 00:05:16.870 --> 00:05:19.649 get into the stories for today's group, though. 00:05:20.689 --> 00:05:23.529 The theme is pirates, and I am very thankful 00:05:23.529 --> 00:05:25.670 to say that I did not have to come with any of 00:05:25.670 --> 00:05:28.569 these names for this theme. Thank you, Jenny. 00:05:28.769 --> 00:05:32.209 Jenny is our adoption coordinator. A few transports 00:05:32.209 --> 00:05:34.709 ago, Jenny took in some kittens that needed to 00:05:34.709 --> 00:05:37.850 be bottle fed for me, and those have all grown 00:05:37.850 --> 00:05:40.250 up and been adopted now. So Jenny messaged me 00:05:40.250 --> 00:05:42.470 saying that she was an empty nester and she was 00:05:42.470 --> 00:05:44.829 feeling very sad that all of her babies had left. 00:05:45.240 --> 00:05:47.620 So I showed her a picture of one of our kittens 00:05:47.620 --> 00:05:50.220 that was coming up today that just recently had 00:05:50.220 --> 00:05:53.680 her eye removed due to a terrible infection. 00:05:54.199 --> 00:05:56.519 Jenny instantly fell in love with her. Actually, 00:05:56.560 --> 00:06:00.100 I think it's a boy and said that she would happily 00:06:00.100 --> 00:06:03.300 foster that pirate kitty. And I said that would 00:06:03.300 --> 00:06:06.560 be a great theme for this transport. And there 00:06:06.560 --> 00:06:10.300 you have it. but Jenny broke the golden rule 00:06:10.300 --> 00:06:13.480 for naming animals on on transports and my oh 00:06:13.480 --> 00:06:15.740 geez you're gonna be like wow I cannot believe 00:06:15.740 --> 00:06:19.100 Jenny was allowed to do this but so the rule 00:06:19.100 --> 00:06:23.420 is we don't use the same starting letter twice. 00:06:24.120 --> 00:06:26.800 I guess there wasn't enough pirate names so there's 00:06:26.800 --> 00:06:31.319 a few letters that have dog names and cat names. 00:06:31.560 --> 00:06:34.040 So stay with me for all my first time listeners. 00:06:34.240 --> 00:06:37.879 Sorry, this is your introduction to this podcast. 00:06:38.500 --> 00:06:41.160 I usually don't talk about myself this much, 00:06:41.160 --> 00:06:44.680 but let me give you a quick rundown of how this 00:06:44.680 --> 00:06:49.819 works. So every transport has a theme and every 00:06:49.819 --> 00:06:53.060 animal on that transport is named within that 00:06:53.060 --> 00:06:57.319 theme. Litter mates all start with the same letter 00:06:57.319 --> 00:06:59.660 so that we can keep track of who is related. 00:07:00.079 --> 00:07:04.959 However, With this transport, some letters are 00:07:04.959 --> 00:07:08.939 repeated with cat names. Just ignore that. Your 00:07:08.939 --> 00:07:11.699 dog is not from the same litter as a kitten. 00:07:11.860 --> 00:07:14.459 They have nothing to do with each other. Also, 00:07:14.860 --> 00:07:17.879 I will not say each and every individual name. 00:07:18.019 --> 00:07:21.240 The only names I say are singles who don't have 00:07:21.240 --> 00:07:24.699 any litter mates. for litters i will just call 00:07:24.699 --> 00:07:27.879 them by their letter so if your puppy's name 00:07:27.879 --> 00:07:31.920 starts with t you are listening for the t litter 00:07:31.920 --> 00:07:37.160 story also i do all of the puppies and then i 00:07:37.160 --> 00:07:40.459 do kittens so if you're confused about if you 00:07:40.459 --> 00:07:45.360 have an x litter you'll know i'll tell you when 00:07:45.360 --> 00:07:47.120 we get to the cats you'll know if i'm talking 00:07:47.120 --> 00:07:49.220 about the dogs or the cats but you'll figure 00:07:49.220 --> 00:07:54.600 it out it's not hard let's go Wicked Wench is 00:07:54.600 --> 00:07:56.759 from our Alabama Shelter Friends. There's quite 00:07:56.759 --> 00:07:59.500 a few on this band from our Alabama Shelter Friends. 00:08:00.519 --> 00:08:03.600 And though we love them dearly, we do hate how 00:08:03.600 --> 00:08:05.540 little they're able to tell us about the animals 00:08:05.540 --> 00:08:09.000 that they get. Wicked Wench was picked up as 00:08:09.000 --> 00:08:11.379 a stray by Animal Control and that is all we 00:08:11.379 --> 00:08:14.620 know. Queen Anne's Revenge unfortunately has 00:08:14.620 --> 00:08:17.100 the same story. Alabama Shelter Friends picked 00:08:17.100 --> 00:08:21.480 up as a stray one day by Animal Control. Charlotte 00:08:21.480 --> 00:08:24.000 Deberry is from our Alabama Shelter Friends, 00:08:24.160 --> 00:08:27.220 but she actually does have a story. One of the 00:08:27.220 --> 00:08:29.899 local vets called the shelter to see if they 00:08:29.899 --> 00:08:32.179 would take her after they saw her being thrown 00:08:32.179 --> 00:08:36.720 out of a moving car into their parking lot. Mystic 00:08:36.720 --> 00:08:40.100 Pearl is our fourth and final pup from the Alabama 00:08:40.100 --> 00:08:42.820 Shelter Friends this week. Same story as the 00:08:42.820 --> 00:08:47.200 others picked up as a stray. Eleanor Morgan showed 00:08:47.200 --> 00:08:50.059 up as a stray several months ago. The homeowners 00:08:50.059 --> 00:08:53.299 have been trying to find anyone that will take 00:08:53.299 --> 00:08:56.000 her and they messaged us a few weeks back to 00:08:56.000 --> 00:08:57.539 see if we'd be able to take her and we finally 00:08:57.539 --> 00:09:01.759 had room this week. Grace O'Malley is actually 00:09:01.759 --> 00:09:05.039 a litter mate to the bee litter of three pups 00:09:05.039 --> 00:09:08.200 that came up on the May 4th Star Wars transport 00:09:08.200 --> 00:09:11.820 so this is what I said about them on that podcast 00:09:11.820 --> 00:09:16.100 episode. They are from our wonderful Dr. Jamie. 00:09:16.419 --> 00:09:19.100 For you new listeners, she was Dr. Burton's student 00:09:19.100 --> 00:09:21.799 down here at Mississippi State. They ended up 00:09:21.799 --> 00:09:24.850 becoming lifelong best friends. Dr. Burton. Nope. 00:09:26.330 --> 00:09:29.190 Dr. Jamie does a ton of vet care for us super 00:09:29.190 --> 00:09:31.570 cheap and in return we help her with animals 00:09:31.570 --> 00:09:34.970 that get dumped on her. Case in point, this letter 00:09:34.970 --> 00:09:37.470 she got a call back in November from someone 00:09:37.470 --> 00:09:41.629 on the county's shelter board. Fun fact, so this 00:09:41.629 --> 00:09:46.809 episode I wrote this in May, May 4th, that shelter 00:09:46.809 --> 00:09:50.029 is like completely gone now they have no shelter 00:09:50.029 --> 00:09:53.000 in the city limits or the county. they don't 00:09:53.000 --> 00:09:55.960 even have animal control they have nothing um 00:09:55.960 --> 00:09:58.590 okay back to the story There were apartments 00:09:58.590 --> 00:10:01.490 close to where this board member lived and she 00:10:01.490 --> 00:10:04.289 said for years she has watched a mama dog there 00:10:04.289 --> 00:10:07.210 just have litter after litter twice a year every 00:10:07.210 --> 00:10:09.509 year. She said she couldn't take it anymore and 00:10:09.509 --> 00:10:11.529 was sick of seeing all the puppies just getting 00:10:11.529 --> 00:10:14.309 run over all the time. So she asked Dr. Jamie 00:10:14.309 --> 00:10:17.049 if she would help with them. Jamie said bring 00:10:17.049 --> 00:10:19.409 the mom and all the puppies to the clinic. So 00:10:19.409 --> 00:10:21.929 she spayed the mom and the woman who called her 00:10:21.929 --> 00:10:24.549 took the mom back as a foster. She was going 00:10:24.549 --> 00:10:26.669 to send her to a northern rescue with the puppies. 00:10:26.700 --> 00:10:29.679 but she kept escaping every single day and going 00:10:29.679 --> 00:10:31.639 back to the apartments where she had lived for 00:10:31.639 --> 00:10:34.259 so long. I'm sure that you know they like throw 00:10:34.259 --> 00:10:36.440 out scraps of food for her so I'm sure she loved 00:10:36.440 --> 00:10:38.919 it over there. So they eventually just let her 00:10:38.919 --> 00:10:41.019 stay there because at least she was spayed it 00:10:41.019 --> 00:10:44.720 wouldn't be reproducing anymore. Dr. Jamie spayed 00:10:44.720 --> 00:10:47.419 and neutered all six of the puppies and kept 00:10:47.419 --> 00:10:51.039 them at her clinic for weeks. They ended up doing 00:10:51.039 --> 00:10:55.320 a big fundraiser for that shelter and got three 00:10:55.320 --> 00:10:59.460 of them adopted out locally these three okay 00:10:59.460 --> 00:11:01.899 not these three the three that i'm talking about 00:11:01.899 --> 00:11:05.320 in this episode so the three boys came back to 00:11:05.320 --> 00:11:08.120 the clinic with dr jamie and they were there 00:11:08.120 --> 00:11:12.059 until transport so back to this girl on today's 00:11:12.059 --> 00:11:14.480 transport she got adopted out locally and then 00:11:14.480 --> 00:11:17.019 we sent the three brothers to virginia in may 00:11:17.019 --> 00:11:20.379 wow A few weeks ago, the owner brought her back 00:11:20.379 --> 00:11:22.759 into Dr. Jamie's office and said his health was 00:11:22.759 --> 00:11:24.440 getting really bad and he wasn't able to take 00:11:24.440 --> 00:11:27.100 care of her anymore. So they were going to post 00:11:27.100 --> 00:11:30.899 her as free to a good home on Facebook. And they 00:11:30.899 --> 00:11:34.200 actually did. And then Dr. Dr. Jamie tagged me 00:11:34.200 --> 00:11:36.519 in the post asking if we would take her to which, 00:11:36.639 --> 00:11:38.580 of course, we're more than happy to help with. 00:11:40.090 --> 00:11:43.850 The axe litter up to one of our foster friends 00:11:43.850 --> 00:11:47.990 was at a garage sale of an Amish family that 00:11:47.990 --> 00:11:51.309 breeds Australian shepherds Fun fact if you did 00:11:51.309 --> 00:11:54.029 not know Amish communities are actually notorious 00:11:54.029 --> 00:11:58.169 for being puppy mills Love them love their bread, 00:11:58.169 --> 00:12:02.210 but hate their views on animals because they 00:12:02.210 --> 00:12:05.679 are they are actually really terrible to their 00:12:05.679 --> 00:12:07.840 animals the puppy mills the puppy mills are terrible 00:12:07.840 --> 00:12:10.659 to their animals um so these two puppies were 00:12:10.659 --> 00:12:13.200 getting older and therefore harder to sell so 00:12:13.200 --> 00:12:17.519 they had them for sale for $25 each but our rescue 00:12:17.519 --> 00:12:21.159 friend actually talked them down to $35 for both 00:12:21.159 --> 00:12:24.570 because that's all the money that she had and 00:12:24.570 --> 00:12:26.850 she bought them so that she could make sure that 00:12:26.850 --> 00:12:28.769 they went to really good homes. She posted them 00:12:28.769 --> 00:12:31.610 on Facebook. We offered to take them. He said 00:12:31.610 --> 00:12:35.190 that they are purebred miniature Aussies. They're 00:12:35.190 --> 00:12:38.570 not. They are definitely not miniature. They 00:12:38.570 --> 00:12:40.750 may actually really be purebred. I would love 00:12:40.750 --> 00:12:42.970 to see a DNA test on them, but they're not miniature. 00:12:44.809 --> 00:12:47.769 The H litter of two. So they're from a litter 00:12:47.769 --> 00:12:50.029 of three. Three puppies were dumped and ended 00:12:50.029 --> 00:12:52.350 up on the back porch of a home that was under 00:12:52.350 --> 00:12:56.120 construction. The homeowners kept one and they 00:12:56.120 --> 00:13:00.220 asked us to take these other two babies. The 00:13:00.220 --> 00:13:03.580 Z lit her up to a mama dog and puppies showed 00:13:03.580 --> 00:13:06.379 up at a house in town where a ton of strays show 00:13:06.379 --> 00:13:10.330 up all the time. The homeowner had Put them in 00:13:10.330 --> 00:13:12.789 her dog pen and then posted them on Facebook 00:13:12.789 --> 00:13:14.590 and later that day she got in touch with one 00:13:14.590 --> 00:13:17.889 of our fosters and She took her two of the puppies 00:13:17.889 --> 00:13:21.309 when she got off work that night at 11 p .m She 00:13:21.309 --> 00:13:23.429 said that she had given another puppy away to 00:13:23.429 --> 00:13:25.549 one of her friends and then three of them ran 00:13:25.549 --> 00:13:28.230 off and she never saw him again Our foster went 00:13:28.230 --> 00:13:30.529 back over there several times several different 00:13:30.529 --> 00:13:32.710 days looking for the puppies, but she never saw 00:13:32.710 --> 00:13:36.629 any She did see who she assumes was the mom, 00:13:36.669 --> 00:13:38.789 but she couldn't get close to her and the home 00:13:38.730 --> 00:13:40.409 owner said she's never been able to get close 00:13:40.409 --> 00:13:43.669 to her either. Animal control is working on trying 00:13:43.669 --> 00:13:46.149 to trap her but the mom actually hasn't been 00:13:46.149 --> 00:13:48.850 seen for several days now so we don't even know 00:13:48.850 --> 00:13:52.809 what's going on with her. The J litter of two 00:13:52.809 --> 00:13:55.950 were found on a back road and fostered by the 00:13:55.950 --> 00:14:00.470 finder until transport. The why letter of two, 00:14:00.809 --> 00:14:03.190 a lady from church asked one of our rescue partners 00:14:03.190 --> 00:14:06.090 if she could take two puppies for her. She was 00:14:06.090 --> 00:14:08.929 offering to continue fostering them until transport, 00:14:09.070 --> 00:14:11.769 but when she showed our rescue partner how mangy 00:14:11.769 --> 00:14:14.549 they were and told her that she didn't even ever 00:14:14.549 --> 00:14:16.629 hold them or pet them, our rescue partner sent 00:14:16.629 --> 00:14:18.730 them straight to her daughter to foster them 00:14:18.730 --> 00:14:23.409 the next day. The V litter of two were part of 00:14:23.409 --> 00:14:26.950 a litter of seven that were dumped on a busy 00:14:26.950 --> 00:14:30.210 highway a four -lane highway They all broke with 00:14:30.210 --> 00:14:33.090 parva a few days later and only these two puppies 00:14:33.090 --> 00:14:35.950 survived of the whole litter of seven These were 00:14:35.950 --> 00:14:38.590 taken in by another rescue partner of ours who 00:14:38.590 --> 00:14:40.509 treated them all otherwise, you know I would 00:14:40.509 --> 00:14:43.889 have like a whole episode just on how horrible 00:14:43.889 --> 00:14:49.789 that is The U litter of three, oh my Gosh these 00:14:49.789 --> 00:14:53.830 are our purebred Weimaraners and I am obsessed 00:14:53.830 --> 00:14:56.470 with them. I don't even like Weimaraners but 00:14:56.470 --> 00:15:00.529 they are so so stinking cute. This is what our 00:15:00.529 --> 00:15:07.590 rescue partner Tasha said. Long story but it 00:15:07.590 --> 00:15:10.789 started with the daddy, the dog, roaming the 00:15:10.789 --> 00:15:14.210 city limits so we found his owners and made them 00:15:14.210 --> 00:15:17.399 aware and that's when we found a puppy not one 00:15:17.399 --> 00:15:20.519 of the three this is a fourth puppy that was 00:15:20.519 --> 00:15:22.820 super malnourished and neglected and it was in 00:15:22.820 --> 00:15:26.419 the middle of the road this puppy was honestly 00:15:26.419 --> 00:15:29.740 like the size of the ears on the litter of three 00:15:29.740 --> 00:15:33.639 it was so so malnourished i actually think it 00:15:33.639 --> 00:15:37.600 had a shunt in my veterinary opinion i think 00:15:37.600 --> 00:15:39.120 it had a liver shunt and there was something 00:15:39.120 --> 00:15:41.580 wrong with it a week later he ended up passing 00:15:41.580 --> 00:15:44.940 away in tasha's arms So she said she couldn't 00:15:44.940 --> 00:15:47.059 stand the thought of the others being left for 00:15:47.059 --> 00:15:51.100 days on end. So she went to the house and she 00:15:51.100 --> 00:15:55.019 was like, I'll give you $50 per puppy if you'll 00:15:55.019 --> 00:15:57.440 just let me have them. And her husband was like, 00:15:57.460 --> 00:16:00.080 I cannot believe you did that. But he's like, 00:16:00.100 --> 00:16:02.919 I know that you would not have been able to sleep 00:16:02.919 --> 00:16:04.899 for the rest of your life wondering what was 00:16:04.899 --> 00:16:06.480 going on with those puppies and if they were 00:16:06.480 --> 00:16:11.299 OK. So. She paid $150 and got them out of that 00:16:11.299 --> 00:16:14.159 dump. She said is the best money I ever spent 00:16:14.159 --> 00:16:17.539 She tried really hard to get the mom to and I 00:16:17.539 --> 00:16:19.879 know she did Tasha's like me like get them all 00:16:19.879 --> 00:16:21.799 do whatever you have to just to get them all 00:16:21.799 --> 00:16:24.620 But they wouldn't give the mom up. They did at 00:16:24.620 --> 00:16:28.659 least agree to let us pay her so I Had her spayed 00:16:28.659 --> 00:16:33.539 last week with our vets The S litter of three 00:16:33.539 --> 00:16:36.259 the puppies were in a home with an older couple 00:16:36.259 --> 00:16:38.799 that didn't have the means to care for them They 00:16:38.799 --> 00:16:41.559 had the puppies the mom and the dad and they 00:16:41.559 --> 00:16:46.820 were all had Extreme mange the puppies were completely 00:16:46.820 --> 00:16:50.340 bald. They looked like naked mole rats remind 00:16:50.340 --> 00:16:54.899 me OG who's listening to this remind me to post 00:16:54.899 --> 00:16:57.799 the the before picture of them on the fosters 00:16:57.799 --> 00:17:00.700 page so you guys can see the transformation that 00:17:00.700 --> 00:17:05.000 these puppies made I mean they if they were unrecognizable 00:17:05.000 --> 00:17:07.480 when we picked up the puppies we left them next 00:17:07.480 --> 00:17:10.240 card with the couple for the parent dogs and 00:17:10.240 --> 00:17:13.019 they are very thankful that wolf trap is going 00:17:13.019 --> 00:17:17.400 to spay and neuter the mom and dad for them The 00:17:17.400 --> 00:17:20.839 A litter of four belonged to a family member 00:17:20.839 --> 00:17:24.420 of one of our fosters and they just have way 00:17:24.420 --> 00:17:28.640 too many dogs. They reluctantly agreed to let 00:17:28.640 --> 00:17:32.079 our foster take the puppies and she has actually 00:17:32.079 --> 00:17:36.079 already herself paid to have the mom spayed and 00:17:36.079 --> 00:17:39.200 took her and everything so she was not messing 00:17:39.200 --> 00:17:44.009 around with this. The T litter of nine actually 00:17:44.009 --> 00:17:46.230 not a litter of nine. I'm doing it again if you 00:17:46.230 --> 00:17:50.410 listen to last week's episode. Someone had eight 00:17:50.410 --> 00:17:53.529 adult dogs. Two of them got pregnant at the same 00:17:53.529 --> 00:17:57.430 time by the same. daddy dog. They asked us to 00:17:57.430 --> 00:18:00.609 take the litter of six and the litter of three. 00:18:00.890 --> 00:18:03.990 They were born just six days apart and they all 00:18:03.990 --> 00:18:06.609 have the same daddy so since they were all together 00:18:06.609 --> 00:18:09.009 and all about the same age and all being fostered 00:18:09.009 --> 00:18:11.710 together too, we just combined them into one 00:18:11.710 --> 00:18:14.210 litter and picked a date of birth in the middle 00:18:14.210 --> 00:18:17.509 of the two. Wolf Trap paid to spay the two moms 00:18:17.509 --> 00:18:20.789 and B2Cast gave them vouchers to get their other 00:18:20.789 --> 00:18:23.470 animals spayed and neutered so hopefully We will 00:18:23.470 --> 00:18:27.369 not have to deal with that anymore. And Black 00:18:27.369 --> 00:18:30.089 Pearl, she was our last minute add on today. 00:18:30.170 --> 00:18:32.710 She was found digging through the trash at a 00:18:32.710 --> 00:18:36.049 little country gas station. She was very, very 00:18:36.049 --> 00:18:39.569 thin with a super bloated parasite filled tummy, 00:18:39.890 --> 00:18:42.609 but our rescue partner took great care of her. 00:18:42.970 --> 00:18:47.250 OK, so now for the cats. So if you are fostering 00:18:47.250 --> 00:18:50.630 a cat. These are going to be their stories, so. 00:18:50.859 --> 00:18:56.059 pay attention to the the letters this time. Umberto 00:18:56.059 --> 00:18:58.579 is from our Alabama shelter friends, he was picked 00:18:58.579 --> 00:19:01.660 up as a stray. Zelda is also from our Alabama 00:19:01.660 --> 00:19:03.980 shelter friends, picked up as a stray. The G 00:19:03.980 --> 00:19:06.599 letter too again are from our Alabama shelter 00:19:06.599 --> 00:19:10.180 friends and they were brought in as strays. That's 00:19:10.180 --> 00:19:13.079 all of the animals from our Alabama shelter. 00:19:13.539 --> 00:19:17.299 The I letter of two, the owner took them in as 00:19:17.299 --> 00:19:20.160 strays and then the owner passed away. All of 00:19:20.160 --> 00:19:22.779 her cats have just been left at her house just 00:19:22.779 --> 00:19:25.660 to fend for themselves. Needless to say it did 00:19:25.660 --> 00:19:28.880 not take long at all for a major problem to crop 00:19:28.880 --> 00:19:32.119 up. There are still several more cats and kittens 00:19:32.119 --> 00:19:34.640 at this vacant house that our rescue partners 00:19:34.640 --> 00:19:38.140 are working to trap and get and at least spay 00:19:38.140 --> 00:19:42.190 and neuter. The O litter of two were just kittens 00:19:42.190 --> 00:19:44.990 running wild in someone's yard. They are very 00:19:44.990 --> 00:19:47.569 socialized, but they have been outside most of 00:19:47.569 --> 00:19:50.630 their life. That's about all we know about these. 00:19:52.430 --> 00:19:55.990 Xavier Bloodmoon, the whole reason for the theme 00:19:55.990 --> 00:19:59.890 of this transport, wandered up to a house in 00:19:59.890 --> 00:20:02.650 town where one of our foster's granddaughters 00:20:02.650 --> 00:20:06.789 lives. She has helped her grandmother with many 00:20:06.789 --> 00:20:10.069 animals and insisted that they had to take care 00:20:10.069 --> 00:20:13.710 of this kitty with this goopy eye. It ended up 00:20:13.710 --> 00:20:15.829 not just being a goopy eye when we got it to 00:20:15.829 --> 00:20:17.690 the vet. The vet said that the eye was too far 00:20:17.690 --> 00:20:20.009 gone and it was going to have to be surgically 00:20:20.009 --> 00:20:24.250 removed. The D litter up to somebody found them 00:20:24.250 --> 00:20:27.420 lying in the road. curled up next to their dead 00:20:27.420 --> 00:20:30.579 mama. The lady took them home and her husband 00:20:30.579 --> 00:20:34.720 was so furious when he saw them that he refused 00:20:34.720 --> 00:20:37.900 to speak to her until she got rid of them. So 00:20:37.900 --> 00:20:40.740 she took them to her vet who reached out to somebody 00:20:40.740 --> 00:20:43.559 who reached out to us and then Jessica took them. 00:20:44.720 --> 00:20:47.339 Lady Luck showed up at a man's house when she 00:20:47.339 --> 00:20:49.859 was only about three months old. We were just 00:20:49.859 --> 00:20:52.200 completely overwhelmed with kittens at that time 00:20:52.200 --> 00:20:54.839 and we told them that we couldn't take it yet. 00:20:54.980 --> 00:20:57.259 About a month later one of our fosters ended 00:20:57.259 --> 00:20:59.420 up taking her herself because she was afraid 00:20:59.420 --> 00:21:02.480 that one of the dogs that this man owned was 00:21:02.480 --> 00:21:07.440 going to kill her. The K -liter of four, an older 00:21:07.440 --> 00:21:10.480 lady found them in her yard as tiny, tiny kittens 00:21:10.480 --> 00:21:13.940 about two weeks old. She never saw the mama and 00:21:13.940 --> 00:21:16.279 so she eventually brought them inside and bottle 00:21:16.279 --> 00:21:19.039 -fed them herself. She had reached out to other 00:21:19.039 --> 00:21:21.599 rescues and shelters but was terrified of where 00:21:21.599 --> 00:21:24.799 they would end up. but also knew she couldn't 00:21:24.799 --> 00:21:28.640 take care of four cats. And then Jessica's aunt 00:21:28.640 --> 00:21:32.460 mentioned to her that Jessica has a rescue and 00:21:32.460 --> 00:21:35.019 she is just so, so, so grateful that they're 00:21:35.019 --> 00:21:36.880 going somewhere where she knows they're going 00:21:36.880 --> 00:21:38.779 to get wonderful homes. They're going to be taken 00:21:38.779 --> 00:21:40.680 care of. They're going to be indoor cats their 00:21:40.680 --> 00:21:44.180 whole life. She cried like a baby when she left 00:21:44.180 --> 00:21:49.019 them with us. That is all the stories for today. 00:21:49.930 --> 00:21:52.730 So sorry, like I'm realizing now that I do not 00:21:52.730 --> 00:21:56.789 sound well enough to be doing a podcast episode. 00:21:57.049 --> 00:21:59.470 I feel fine, I feel really great, but I feel 00:21:59.470 --> 00:22:02.549 like I sound super gross and nasally. If this 00:22:02.549 --> 00:22:05.349 is your first time listening, please come back. 00:22:06.069 --> 00:22:10.799 Please don't let this episode ruin you. We are 00:22:10.799 --> 00:22:13.519 now down to our last three transports of the 00:22:13.519 --> 00:22:16.160 year and they're all in the month of November 00:22:16.160 --> 00:22:19.200 So make sure you sign up to get your puppy fix 00:22:19.200 --> 00:22:22.559 or your kitten cuddles before it's too late We 00:22:22.559 --> 00:22:26.000 have a super cute load coming next time and like 00:22:26.000 --> 00:22:28.900 I'm just now thinking about this. We have three 00:22:28.900 --> 00:22:31.640 transports left We try to do about ten kittens 00:22:31.640 --> 00:22:37.460 per transport and I know right now I have I have 00:22:37.460 --> 00:22:42.180 way more than 30 kittens so I don't know I don't 00:22:42.180 --> 00:22:44.420 know how we're gonna fit all these kittens in 00:22:44.420 --> 00:22:48.440 the next three transports um that transport next 00:22:48.440 --> 00:22:53.000 week is actually already full on puppies so we 00:22:53.000 --> 00:22:55.799 are needing lots and lots of fosters for November 00:22:55.799 --> 00:22:59.240 but thank you for listening thank you even more 00:22:59.240 --> 00:23:03.039 for fostering it's a Ruff life but someone's 00:23:03.039 --> 00:23:03.799 gotta do it