Hello friends! Welcome to Ruff Life. And to
the transport that almost didn't happen. We only
had 10 fosters signed up by Thursday afternoon
and we have to send 20 puppies just to break
even with the cost of transport. So it was really
looking like this load was going to get canceled
and that we would just have to move everyone
to next week's and next week's animals to the
last transport, which was going to completely
cut all of the animals that need to go on the
last transport. But thankfully, the wolf trap
community is second to none. And when I made
a post on the fosters page that we were in desperate
need of fosters, y 'all showed out. We got fosters
for every puppy and kitten on the list. plus
four extra kittens so so so so incredible so
so so so thankful the theme for this week's transport
is dancing with the stars in honor of the 20th
anniversary episode that's airing this week I
will be honest, I didn't do any of these names.
These are all courtesy of Gianna, our puppy therapy
coordinator. She is a die -hard Dancing with
the Stars fan. I just started watching this season
for the first time actually and I'm ashamed to
admit that I only started watching because of
the Secret Lives of Mormon Wives girls that were
on it. However, I am now hooked and I will definitely
continue watching other seasons. But let's get
into the stories. Tango, his mom was a purebred
Great Pyrenees. She was hit by a truck when the
puppies were only 10 days old and the owner,
there were eight puppies, the owner just divided
them among several different bottle feeders.
and so our rescue partner took him. He ended
up coming down with pneumonia just a few days
after they got him and our rescue partners were
so terrified that they would lose him. They spent
hours on end holding him up just so he could
breathe. He slowly improved and now he is just
all puppy. He is wild. He loves to eat so much
so that they had to teach him to sit at treat
time so that he wouldn't nip at their hand. and
they started body training but he still needs
lots of work. He is very eager to please though
so they believe that he will be very easy to
train, hopefully. Hip hop was picked up as a
stray by the animal control at the kill shelter.
She had actually been wandering the streets for
a couple of weeks and animal control had been
called multiple times to go and get her before
he finally did. She was covered in fleas and
half of her hair was gone from a flea allergy.
The rest of it was just a matted mess. So they
ended up having to shave most of it. but oh my
goodness she is sweet as can be. She's a little
hard of hearing but she is just the most precious
little old lady. Mirror ball was found in somebody's
driveway. They actually almost ran him over and
that's how they found him. Foxtrot and a brother
showed up in a lady's yard. She posted them on
Facebook and one of our fosters saw them and
went to go get them, but by the time they got
there One of the puppies had been run over by
the mailman. So this puppy was lying in the ditch
with his dead brother when they got there to
get him. He was super, super skinny and malnourished
and he still just devours his food. So it'll
probably take a little while for him to learn
that he is always going to have food from now
on. The rest of the single animals are from our
Alabama shelter friends. We love them so dearly
and we are always excited when we get to pull
animals from them. However, because they are
a shelter, they rarely ever know the background
stories for their animals, which is definitely
a bummer. So Waltz was picked up as a stray.
Passo Doble. Maybe is how you say that was picked
up as a stray Lynn Goodman was picked up as a
stray Viewer vote was actually an owner surrender,
but the owner didn't give a reason why they were
surrendering him guest judge was picked up as
a stray and the e litter of Two are also from
the Alabama shelter. They were owner surrenders
He had like 50 dogs, but he only gave them just
these two he Says that he's working on sending
them more of his animals He has another litter
of small puppies smaller than these two That
the shelter is trying really hard to get for
next week's transport. So fingers crossed They're
not they're not from this litter, but they're
from the same house as this litter. So fingers
crossed we get those The A litter of two were
found on a county road. The finder did not see
a mama dog or any other puppies. She knew that
it was going to be pouring rain a lot the next
week so she picked them up and took them home.
The C litter of five were strays. Someone posted
on Facebook that 10 10 puppies were dumped and
after she made the post people were like oh they've
been out there for over two weeks now so a rescue
who this is our first time partnering with them.
We've never partnered with them before they're
brand new. A rescue took them in and by the time
they got there four of the puppies were lying
there dead. So they took the six surviving puppies
home and immediately found out that they had
parvo. One of the puppies passed away during
the parvo treatments and Dr. Jamie worked super
hard to keep the rest of them alive. So Dr. Jamie
and our rescue partner Tasha really wanted to
help out this new rescue so they asked if Wolf
Trap would consider taking a couple of them and
I told them we will take the whole litter of
five because how could we pick which sweet faces
to leave behind? They are so precious. The D
litter of five belonged to a super old man that
lives next door to the dog house. We've taken
two other litters, maybe three, I'm pretty sure
just two though, two other litters from him many
years ago. We spayed and neutered that mom and
dad so I'm not sure why or when he got a new
dog, but I do know that the mama dog is his and
he's going to let us spay her and the daddy dog
is the other neighbor's dog who does not want
him neutered. So that's annoying. The J letter
of seven are owner surrenders. My mother actually
pulled these, Mama Becky, and when I asked her
for the background story this is what she said.
I'm gonna read it to you. She said When we went
to vaccinate them, the owner mentioned that her
daughter next door also needed help with some
puppies that were born five days after these
seven puppies. And there's 11 of them. They'll
be coming next week. Tell all of your friends.
So please listen to her, tell all of your friends
because we are definitely going to need fosters
for them. That's all of the puppy stories, but
we have so many stinking cute kittens on the
van this week. The S litter of four were born
to a family that loves animals but doesn't let
them in the house. The kittens were super spicy
when we first got them, but it only took a couple
days for them to fall in love with all of us.
Unfortunately, though, just two weeks after we
got the kittens, we had a spay appointment for
the mom. And when they walked out there to get
the mom, they found her dead in their pool house
with like no marks on her. So they have no idea
how or why she died. She was just a stray that
had wandered up in their yard that they were
going to keep. The our mom and her three are
kittens are owner surrenders the kittens were
originally a litter of five But the Alabama shelter
friends aren't sure what happened to the other
two kittens if they were given away or if they
died the third kitten has pretty gunky eyes and
so when they got to transport and I saw how rough
he looked we decided to hold him back and one
of the bee litter of 10 kittens who are from
the same shelter. They were thrown out by a neighbor
in the rain and turned into the shelter. They
ended up getting pneumonia right after they got
there, but they have all recovered except for
the one who's hanging back with me until hopefully
just next week and one that died just a few days
after they got them. So I ended up holding these
two kittens back mainly because they're so sick,
but also just a tiny little bit because my 18
month old Mary Sue loves, loves, loves kitty
kitties. That's what she calls them. So I knew
she would just be tickled to death that we were
fostering some. I don't know where her obsession
with kitty kitties came from. I am not a cat
person and my husband Justin is about as opposite
a cat person as you can be. But anyways, I was
so excited to show her that we were bringing
kitty kitties home, but the joke was on me. She
turned into an absolute demon baby after we got
the kitty kitties set up in our guest bathroom.
She Apparently thought she was just going to
get to live in the bathroom with them all week
and lost her ever loving mind when I made her
leave the bathroom. Like literally she cried
harder than I have ever heard her cry in her
whole 18 -month life. I kept telling her we are
just going to eat dinner and let the kitty kitties
rest for a little bit and then we're gonna come
right back in here. We're gonna come right back
and snuggle the kitty kitties. She just could
not understand why in the world we would have
kitty kitties in our house and not hold them
and play in their litter box 24 7. Oh and the
most dramatic part she kept going to the bathroom
door saying knock knock kitty kitties help. peas
kitty kitties all through like sobs oh my goodness
so needless to say it was an early bedtime for
her tonight and we will not be fostering kittens
again for a very long time that is all for this
week's episode there are only two more transports
left for the whole year so please please please
please help us find fosters for everyone down
here it is So hard on us to keep them here for
five weeks while we're closed. And it's so unfair
to them that they could be in loving homes for
the holidays instead of in our cold and lonely
kennels. But thank you for listening. Thank you
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