WEBVTT 00:00:09.160 --> 00:00:13.279 Hello friends! Welcome to Ruff Life. And to 00:00:13.279 --> 00:00:17.699 the transport that almost didn't happen. We only 00:00:17.699 --> 00:00:20.920 had 10 fosters signed up by Thursday afternoon 00:00:20.920 --> 00:00:25.160 and we have to send 20 puppies just to break 00:00:25.160 --> 00:00:28.960 even with the cost of transport. So it was really 00:00:28.960 --> 00:00:31.079 looking like this load was going to get canceled 00:00:31.079 --> 00:00:32.859 and that we would just have to move everyone 00:00:32.859 --> 00:00:36.659 to next week's and next week's animals to the 00:00:36.659 --> 00:00:38.340 last transport, which was going to completely 00:00:38.340 --> 00:00:40.759 cut all of the animals that need to go on the 00:00:40.759 --> 00:00:44.579 last transport. But thankfully, the wolf trap 00:00:44.579 --> 00:00:47.880 community is second to none. And when I made 00:00:47.880 --> 00:00:50.600 a post on the fosters page that we were in desperate 00:00:50.600 --> 00:00:54.039 need of fosters, y 'all showed out. We got fosters 00:00:54.039 --> 00:00:57.670 for every puppy and kitten on the list. plus 00:00:57.670 --> 00:01:02.310 four extra kittens so so so so incredible so 00:01:02.310 --> 00:01:06.030 so so so thankful the theme for this week's transport 00:01:06.030 --> 00:01:09.590 is dancing with the stars in honor of the 20th 00:01:09.590 --> 00:01:13.409 anniversary episode that's airing this week I 00:01:13.409 --> 00:01:15.590 will be honest, I didn't do any of these names. 00:01:15.750 --> 00:01:18.950 These are all courtesy of Gianna, our puppy therapy 00:01:18.950 --> 00:01:22.109 coordinator. She is a die -hard Dancing with 00:01:22.109 --> 00:01:26.750 the Stars fan. I just started watching this season 00:01:26.750 --> 00:01:29.469 for the first time actually and I'm ashamed to 00:01:29.469 --> 00:01:32.090 admit that I only started watching because of 00:01:32.090 --> 00:01:35.010 the Secret Lives of Mormon Wives girls that were 00:01:35.010 --> 00:01:39.469 on it. However, I am now hooked and I will definitely 00:01:39.469 --> 00:01:43.120 continue watching other seasons. But let's get 00:01:43.120 --> 00:01:47.319 into the stories. Tango, his mom was a purebred 00:01:47.319 --> 00:01:50.799 Great Pyrenees. She was hit by a truck when the 00:01:50.799 --> 00:01:53.920 puppies were only 10 days old and the owner, 00:01:54.439 --> 00:01:56.040 there were eight puppies, the owner just divided 00:01:56.040 --> 00:01:58.519 them among several different bottle feeders. 00:01:59.129 --> 00:02:02.090 and so our rescue partner took him. He ended 00:02:02.090 --> 00:02:04.230 up coming down with pneumonia just a few days 00:02:04.230 --> 00:02:06.650 after they got him and our rescue partners were 00:02:06.650 --> 00:02:09.409 so terrified that they would lose him. They spent 00:02:09.409 --> 00:02:11.849 hours on end holding him up just so he could 00:02:11.849 --> 00:02:15.250 breathe. He slowly improved and now he is just 00:02:15.250 --> 00:02:19.210 all puppy. He is wild. He loves to eat so much 00:02:19.210 --> 00:02:22.310 so that they had to teach him to sit at treat 00:02:22.310 --> 00:02:25.860 time so that he wouldn't nip at their hand. and 00:02:25.860 --> 00:02:27.919 they started body training but he still needs 00:02:27.919 --> 00:02:30.360 lots of work. He is very eager to please though 00:02:30.360 --> 00:02:34.060 so they believe that he will be very easy to 00:02:34.060 --> 00:02:39.240 train, hopefully. Hip hop was picked up as a 00:02:39.240 --> 00:02:42.300 stray by the animal control at the kill shelter. 00:02:42.860 --> 00:02:45.159 She had actually been wandering the streets for 00:02:45.159 --> 00:02:47.060 a couple of weeks and animal control had been 00:02:47.060 --> 00:02:49.620 called multiple times to go and get her before 00:02:49.620 --> 00:02:53.240 he finally did. She was covered in fleas and 00:02:53.240 --> 00:02:56.259 half of her hair was gone from a flea allergy. 00:02:56.800 --> 00:03:00.240 The rest of it was just a matted mess. So they 00:03:00.240 --> 00:03:03.319 ended up having to shave most of it. but oh my 00:03:03.319 --> 00:03:06.780 goodness she is sweet as can be. She's a little 00:03:06.780 --> 00:03:10.400 hard of hearing but she is just the most precious 00:03:10.400 --> 00:03:15.419 little old lady. Mirror ball was found in somebody's 00:03:15.419 --> 00:03:17.979 driveway. They actually almost ran him over and 00:03:17.979 --> 00:03:23.180 that's how they found him. Foxtrot and a brother 00:03:23.180 --> 00:03:25.560 showed up in a lady's yard. She posted them on 00:03:25.560 --> 00:03:29.039 Facebook and one of our fosters saw them and 00:03:29.039 --> 00:03:31.240 went to go get them, but by the time they got 00:03:31.240 --> 00:03:34.300 there One of the puppies had been run over by 00:03:34.300 --> 00:03:38.819 the mailman. So this puppy was lying in the ditch 00:03:38.819 --> 00:03:41.259 with his dead brother when they got there to 00:03:41.259 --> 00:03:45.379 get him. He was super, super skinny and malnourished 00:03:45.379 --> 00:03:48.879 and he still just devours his food. So it'll 00:03:48.879 --> 00:03:50.419 probably take a little while for him to learn 00:03:50.419 --> 00:03:53.039 that he is always going to have food from now 00:03:53.039 --> 00:03:58.639 on. The rest of the single animals are from our 00:03:58.639 --> 00:04:01.659 Alabama shelter friends. We love them so dearly 00:04:01.659 --> 00:04:03.680 and we are always excited when we get to pull 00:04:03.680 --> 00:04:08.300 animals from them. However, because they are 00:04:08.300 --> 00:04:11.319 a shelter, they rarely ever know the background 00:04:11.319 --> 00:04:13.680 stories for their animals, which is definitely 00:04:13.680 --> 00:04:18.439 a bummer. So Waltz was picked up as a stray. 00:04:19.920 --> 00:04:24.139 Passo Doble. Maybe is how you say that was picked 00:04:24.139 --> 00:04:27.120 up as a stray Lynn Goodman was picked up as a 00:04:27.120 --> 00:04:31.139 stray Viewer vote was actually an owner surrender, 00:04:31.139 --> 00:04:33.600 but the owner didn't give a reason why they were 00:04:33.600 --> 00:04:36.620 surrendering him guest judge was picked up as 00:04:36.620 --> 00:04:41.040 a stray and the e litter of Two are also from 00:04:41.040 --> 00:04:44.060 the Alabama shelter. They were owner surrenders 00:04:44.060 --> 00:04:47.759 He had like 50 dogs, but he only gave them just 00:04:47.759 --> 00:04:53.009 these two he Says that he's working on sending 00:04:53.009 --> 00:04:56.050 them more of his animals He has another litter 00:04:56.050 --> 00:04:58.930 of small puppies smaller than these two That 00:04:58.930 --> 00:05:01.430 the shelter is trying really hard to get for 00:05:01.430 --> 00:05:04.350 next week's transport. So fingers crossed They're 00:05:04.350 --> 00:05:06.649 not they're not from this litter, but they're 00:05:06.649 --> 00:05:08.990 from the same house as this litter. So fingers 00:05:08.990 --> 00:05:12.769 crossed we get those The A litter of two were 00:05:12.769 --> 00:05:15.670 found on a county road. The finder did not see 00:05:15.670 --> 00:05:18.569 a mama dog or any other puppies. She knew that 00:05:18.569 --> 00:05:20.550 it was going to be pouring rain a lot the next 00:05:20.550 --> 00:05:22.550 week so she picked them up and took them home. 00:05:23.829 --> 00:05:28.350 The C litter of five were strays. Someone posted 00:05:28.350 --> 00:05:33.790 on Facebook that 10 10 puppies were dumped and 00:05:33.790 --> 00:05:35.769 after she made the post people were like oh they've 00:05:35.769 --> 00:05:40.180 been out there for over two weeks now so a rescue 00:05:40.180 --> 00:05:42.319 who this is our first time partnering with them. 00:05:42.319 --> 00:05:43.839 We've never partnered with them before they're 00:05:43.839 --> 00:05:47.519 brand new. A rescue took them in and by the time 00:05:47.519 --> 00:05:50.439 they got there four of the puppies were lying 00:05:50.439 --> 00:05:54.300 there dead. So they took the six surviving puppies 00:05:54.300 --> 00:05:57.939 home and immediately found out that they had 00:05:57.939 --> 00:06:01.220 parvo. One of the puppies passed away during 00:06:01.220 --> 00:06:05.360 the parvo treatments and Dr. Jamie worked super 00:06:05.360 --> 00:06:08.339 hard to keep the rest of them alive. So Dr. Jamie 00:06:08.339 --> 00:06:11.300 and our rescue partner Tasha really wanted to 00:06:11.300 --> 00:06:14.000 help out this new rescue so they asked if Wolf 00:06:14.000 --> 00:06:16.420 Trap would consider taking a couple of them and 00:06:16.420 --> 00:06:18.899 I told them we will take the whole litter of 00:06:18.899 --> 00:06:22.279 five because how could we pick which sweet faces 00:06:22.279 --> 00:06:26.990 to leave behind? They are so precious. The D 00:06:26.990 --> 00:06:29.470 litter of five belonged to a super old man that 00:06:29.470 --> 00:06:31.970 lives next door to the dog house. We've taken 00:06:31.970 --> 00:06:34.709 two other litters, maybe three, I'm pretty sure 00:06:34.709 --> 00:06:37.310 just two though, two other litters from him many 00:06:37.310 --> 00:06:40.529 years ago. We spayed and neutered that mom and 00:06:40.529 --> 00:06:43.790 dad so I'm not sure why or when he got a new 00:06:43.790 --> 00:06:47.629 dog, but I do know that the mama dog is his and 00:06:47.629 --> 00:06:51.579 he's going to let us spay her and the daddy dog 00:06:51.579 --> 00:06:54.720 is the other neighbor's dog who does not want 00:06:54.720 --> 00:07:00.319 him neutered. So that's annoying. The J letter 00:07:00.319 --> 00:07:04.579 of seven are owner surrenders. My mother actually 00:07:04.579 --> 00:07:07.279 pulled these, Mama Becky, and when I asked her 00:07:07.279 --> 00:07:11.019 for the background story this is what she said. 00:07:11.019 --> 00:07:13.720 I'm gonna read it to you. She said When we went 00:07:13.720 --> 00:07:16.319 to vaccinate them, the owner mentioned that her 00:07:16.319 --> 00:07:18.839 daughter next door also needed help with some 00:07:18.839 --> 00:07:21.439 puppies that were born five days after these 00:07:21.439 --> 00:07:24.540 seven puppies. And there's 11 of them. They'll 00:07:24.540 --> 00:07:26.879 be coming next week. Tell all of your friends. 00:07:27.980 --> 00:07:30.620 So please listen to her, tell all of your friends 00:07:30.620 --> 00:07:33.819 because we are definitely going to need fosters 00:07:33.819 --> 00:07:37.399 for them. That's all of the puppy stories, but 00:07:37.399 --> 00:07:40.720 we have so many stinking cute kittens on the 00:07:40.720 --> 00:07:44.439 van this week. The S litter of four were born 00:07:44.439 --> 00:07:48.000 to a family that loves animals but doesn't let 00:07:48.000 --> 00:07:51.279 them in the house. The kittens were super spicy 00:07:51.279 --> 00:07:53.279 when we first got them, but it only took a couple 00:07:53.279 --> 00:07:55.500 days for them to fall in love with all of us. 00:07:56.339 --> 00:07:58.180 Unfortunately, though, just two weeks after we 00:07:58.180 --> 00:08:00.879 got the kittens, we had a spay appointment for 00:08:00.879 --> 00:08:03.459 the mom. And when they walked out there to get 00:08:03.459 --> 00:08:06.519 the mom, they found her dead in their pool house 00:08:06.519 --> 00:08:09.579 with like no marks on her. So they have no idea 00:08:09.579 --> 00:08:12.660 how or why she died. She was just a stray that 00:08:12.660 --> 00:08:14.699 had wandered up in their yard that they were 00:08:14.699 --> 00:08:20.000 going to keep. The our mom and her three are 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:22.720 kittens are owner surrenders the kittens were 00:08:22.720 --> 00:08:25.360 originally a litter of five But the Alabama shelter 00:08:25.360 --> 00:08:27.259 friends aren't sure what happened to the other 00:08:27.259 --> 00:08:30.319 two kittens if they were given away or if they 00:08:30.319 --> 00:08:34.980 died the third kitten has pretty gunky eyes and 00:08:34.980 --> 00:08:37.620 so when they got to transport and I saw how rough 00:08:37.620 --> 00:08:42.250 he looked we decided to hold him back and one 00:08:42.250 --> 00:08:45.450 of the bee litter of 10 kittens who are from 00:08:45.450 --> 00:08:49.450 the same shelter. They were thrown out by a neighbor 00:08:49.450 --> 00:08:53.990 in the rain and turned into the shelter. They 00:08:53.990 --> 00:08:56.950 ended up getting pneumonia right after they got 00:08:56.950 --> 00:09:00.190 there, but they have all recovered except for 00:09:00.190 --> 00:09:02.669 the one who's hanging back with me until hopefully 00:09:02.669 --> 00:09:06.409 just next week and one that died just a few days 00:09:06.409 --> 00:09:10.429 after they got them. So I ended up holding these 00:09:10.429 --> 00:09:14.370 two kittens back mainly because they're so sick, 00:09:14.470 --> 00:09:18.289 but also just a tiny little bit because my 18 00:09:18.289 --> 00:09:22.509 month old Mary Sue loves, loves, loves kitty 00:09:22.509 --> 00:09:25.230 kitties. That's what she calls them. So I knew 00:09:25.230 --> 00:09:27.350 she would just be tickled to death that we were 00:09:27.350 --> 00:09:30.730 fostering some. I don't know where her obsession 00:09:30.730 --> 00:09:33.490 with kitty kitties came from. I am not a cat 00:09:33.490 --> 00:09:36.610 person and my husband Justin is about as opposite 00:09:36.610 --> 00:09:40.690 a cat person as you can be. But anyways, I was 00:09:40.690 --> 00:09:42.909 so excited to show her that we were bringing 00:09:42.909 --> 00:09:45.889 kitty kitties home, but the joke was on me. She 00:09:45.889 --> 00:09:50.669 turned into an absolute demon baby after we got 00:09:50.669 --> 00:09:53.149 the kitty kitties set up in our guest bathroom. 00:09:53.269 --> 00:09:56.379 She Apparently thought she was just going to 00:09:56.379 --> 00:09:58.720 get to live in the bathroom with them all week 00:09:58.720 --> 00:10:02.220 and lost her ever loving mind when I made her 00:10:02.220 --> 00:10:05.340 leave the bathroom. Like literally she cried 00:10:05.340 --> 00:10:07.899 harder than I have ever heard her cry in her 00:10:07.899 --> 00:10:11.309 whole 18 -month life. I kept telling her we are 00:10:11.309 --> 00:10:13.690 just going to eat dinner and let the kitty kitties 00:10:13.690 --> 00:10:15.389 rest for a little bit and then we're gonna come 00:10:15.389 --> 00:10:17.669 right back in here. We're gonna come right back 00:10:17.669 --> 00:10:20.769 and snuggle the kitty kitties. She just could 00:10:20.769 --> 00:10:23.129 not understand why in the world we would have 00:10:23.129 --> 00:10:25.529 kitty kitties in our house and not hold them 00:10:25.529 --> 00:10:30.509 and play in their litter box 24 7. Oh and the 00:10:30.509 --> 00:10:33.730 most dramatic part she kept going to the bathroom 00:10:33.730 --> 00:10:38.659 door saying knock knock kitty kitties help. peas 00:10:38.659 --> 00:10:42.679 kitty kitties all through like sobs oh my goodness 00:10:42.679 --> 00:10:46.519 so needless to say it was an early bedtime for 00:10:46.519 --> 00:10:50.019 her tonight and we will not be fostering kittens 00:10:50.019 --> 00:10:55.120 again for a very long time that is all for this 00:10:55.120 --> 00:10:58.519 week's episode there are only two more transports 00:10:58.519 --> 00:11:01.299 left for the whole year so please please please 00:11:01.299 --> 00:11:04.480 please help us find fosters for everyone down 00:11:04.480 --> 00:11:08.120 here it is So hard on us to keep them here for 00:11:08.120 --> 00:11:11.000 five weeks while we're closed. And it's so unfair 00:11:11.000 --> 00:11:13.580 to them that they could be in loving homes for 00:11:13.580 --> 00:11:17.419 the holidays instead of in our cold and lonely 00:11:17.419 --> 00:11:20.960 kennels. But thank you for listening. Thank you 00:11:20.960 --> 00:11:24.039 for fostering. Please comment on this episode 00:11:24.039 --> 00:11:27.179 if you're listening on Spotify or review the 00:11:27.179 --> 00:11:30.120 podcast. If you're listening on Apple Podcasts, 00:11:30.120 --> 00:11:32.539 it helps the podcast grow and reach even more 00:11:32.539 --> 00:11:36.779 people. Y 'all are the best, truly, we are so 00:11:36.779 --> 00:11:39.899 thankful. It's a ruff life, but someone's gotta 00:11:39.899 --> 00:11:40.419 do it.