Welcome to Ruff life. We have got a short episode
today mostly because it's a small transport with
not a lot of stories, but also because I am single
moming it today and it has been terrible. Justin
is at an Alabama football game with all his friends.
So I've had Mary Sue by myself all day from the
moment we woke up till she went to sleep tonight.
And I seriously don't know how any working mom
in the world is able to be a single mom. Holy
moly, I am exhausted. I don't know how you guys
do it more than just one day. Ugh. But okay,
let's jump into the stories. Today's theme is
constellations because Mary Sue is all of a sudden
obsessed with the moon and stars. She even sang
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star to me yesterday,
except she calls the song a buh -buh. She just
says a buh -buh, a buh -buh. When she's telling
you like what song she wants to sing, she'll
just say a buh -buh. Anyway, my 18 month old
is the reason for the theme. Virgo wandered up
to a house in town covered in fleas and super
pitiful from a flea allergy. The family gave
him a bath and put a blanket on the porch for
him and we took them some medicine for his itching
and food and so they were able to hang on to
him until we had a foster available to take him.
Ursa Major was posted on Facebook as free to
a good home because the elderly owner lives in
a low income government apartment and they aren't
allowed to have pets without a doctor's note
and the doctor wouldn't sign off on her which
that sounds ridiculous but I'm kind of wondering
if maybe the doctor knows something we don't
and was like this is not gonna be a good home
for the dog I don't know but if he just didn't
sign off because He didn't want them to have
a dog. That's just insane. But man, I loved this
dog. I almost pulled her off the van today to
foster her because she is so stinking tiny and
cute. I love her. Taurus was born to a stray
mom that came up to a house pregnant and gave
birth. They only ever found one puppy, so they
think that that's all she had. They are keeping
the mom and we will spay her for them. The O
letter of two just showed up to an elderly couple's
house. The husband is on hospice and the wife
couldn't take care of them and her husband, so
she asked us to take them. The S letter of two
are owner surrenders to our Alabama shelter friends.
The owners were moving and couldn't take them
with them. The A letter of five, so Jessica got
a call from one of the guys at our local water
association. She assumed it was work -related
because that's maybe what she does for a job.
I actually do not know what Jessica does for
a job. I always say it's like she's Chandler
Bing from Friends where like we know she has
a job. She goes to her job every day. We have
no idea what she does for a job. But so she thought
it was work related So she answered the phone
and as soon as she answered she heard puppies
barking in the background so he said he had just
picked up five puppies on a back road in the
middle of nowhere and Could he bring them to
her now? So she explained that we don't have
any space available and you know, we would start
looking for a foster But it may take a little
while and he said he would find someone else
to take them So he posted them on Facebook and
as expected, a few hours later, we are just getting
tagged left and right with people begging us
to take them. A lady, another lady at the Water
Association. took them home with her actually
and as a funny note this family's dog had recently
run away they they lost their dog and the son
saw one posted by a shelter a couple towns away
and he thought it was their dog it looked like
their dog so he went he got it he adopted it
he took it home to his parents expecting them
to be so excited that that their lost dog had
come home and they immediately were like that's
not our dog you thought that was a dog that's
not our dog we have no idea whose dog this is
so they're like taking back to the shelter that's
not our dog and the shelter wouldn't take it
back because they live outside the city limits
so it's stuck with this dog because because they
can't own or surrender it they don't live in
the city limits so it's a terrible dog too it's
like chasing their cats, driving them all crazy.
The husband is beside himself that they are stuck
with this dog. And then his wife comes home with
five puppies. So they were very thankful that
Jessica came and got them as quickly as she did.
The C litter of 11 are from the same home and
have the same dad as the J litter of seven from
last week's transport They're all just owner
surrenders The two moms showed up as stray and
the family's fine with keeping them more spaying
both moms for them But the neighborhood male
dog knocked them up at the same time and the
family didn't know what to do with all the puppies
because It was like 18 puppies. That's insane
The L mom and her two L puppies are from our
Alabama shelter friends The mom was dumped in
the county and the shelter took her in just because
she was super pregnant and pitiful She ended
up having four puppies a few days later and then
two puppies died almost immediately and These
two puppies are four weeks old. We know their
date of birth. We know the day that they were
born but they look like they are barely two weeks
old. their eyes just opened the other day and
they should have been opened like between 10
to 14 days old. so i don't know if they were
just premature or what but they are or they look
i guess they they're not technically but they
look very very behind for their age. The P mom
and her seven P pups are also from the Alabama
shelter. Her puppies were born two days Before
the L litter and she is way smaller than the
L mom So that should tell you just how far behind
those L pups are Anyways, the P -Mom was surrendered
to them as a stray, but they're actually like,
she said, we're 98%. They're 98 % sure that they
were the owners who surrendered her and they
just didn't want to tell them. I guess they thought
they wouldn't take them if she was being surrendered
by the owners, but they think they were surrounding
her because she got pregnant, but they think
that because they accidentally called her by
her name when they were surrendering her. As
for the cats, Gemini was found at the city park
about six weeks ago. The family took him home
and have been waiting for a spot on transport
since then. Their older cats are not enjoying
having a quickly growing kitten in their house
so they're very glad to see him go. Delphinius
was a stray that someone turned into our Alabama
shelter friends and oh my gosh I love this cat
so much. He was actually supposed to go... I
I know for sure last transport maybe even the
transport before that and like we never Could
get a foster of him. We didn't even have a foster
for him this round I had to Melissa posted him
and then I had to post him and be like, please
please can someone Foster this cat. I love him
so much. I think people really do think that
he's Mean and gonna murder you but he's the sweetest
cat I don't even know how to say these names.
I'm the one who picked these names. I don't even
know how to say them. Rana and Boots? That's
what it looks like. That's what we're gonna go
with. But if you are a stars expert, please tell
me how to correctly pronounce it. They are the
kittens that I held back from last week's transport,
so make sure you listen to that episode to get
their full story, but they were both just from
our Alabama shelter friends. They've been staying
with me for the last week because they were fairly
sick last week when they showed up to transport,
but man, oh man, I cannot believe how obsessed
my child was with them. It was bizarre. She is
so in love with these kittens. So she has not
seen her dad all day today for the first time
ever in her life. She's never gone a whole day
without seeing her dad. We got home from transport
the transport that we just sent her kitty kitties
on and she asked no less than 50 times where
kitty kitties? Go see kitty -kitties? What kitty
-kitties doing? And then she would go to the
bathroom door where they, where we were keeping
them and she would go knock knock, knock knock
kitty -kitties all within like three hours from
the time we got home without them to the time
she went to bed. She was so obsessed with these
kittens. Meanwhile, she did not so much even
utter the word Dada all day today and they are
like attached at the hip. Usually she's obsessed
with her dad. So... She like only cared that
her kittens were gone. She didn't even care that
her dad was gone. So We're probably gonna end
up getting a kitten Someday someday someday very
far down the road because she's so obsessed with
cats But I'm already annoyed about having to
get a cat because in my defense, I'm allergic
to cats so And I have really bad asthma. So it's
gonna be terrible for me. But oh my goodness.
She loves kittens that is all the stories for
this week. We only have one more transport left
for the whole year and they've already told me
that I can't send any kittens on it because we
have so many cats and kittens in our system right
now. Not because we don't have fosters, so don't
be like, oh I'll come and foster because we have
so many people willing to foster, which is so
wonderful. But we have so many in our system
that are not getting adopted that we cannot,
we don't have the means to bring in anymore.
So please Please, please, please share my adoption
posts about them. Tell your friends, tell your
family, tell strangers, tell anyone you see.
Please go adopt a cat from us at our next adoption
event so that I can send some kittens at the
end of the month because I seriously, literally,
I don't know what we're going to do if we don't
get to send any more for the rest of the year.
So please help us get some adopted, please. It's
a ruff life, but someone's gotta do it.