WEBVTT 00:00:07.950 --> 00:00:14.189 Hello friends, welcome to Ruff life. Holy, if 00:00:14.189 --> 00:00:17.809 I cussed I would have used a really bad word 00:00:17.809 --> 00:00:22.370 right there, but lucky for you I don't because 00:00:22.370 --> 00:00:25.609 let me just say this has been one of the most 00:00:25.609 --> 00:00:30.070 if not the most stressful weeks of my entire 00:00:30.070 --> 00:00:33.350 life. It started on Monday when they started 00:00:33.350 --> 00:00:36.770 predicting this historic catastrophic whatever 00:00:36.770 --> 00:00:39.289 terrifying word they're using to describe this 00:00:39.289 --> 00:00:45.030 storm and it ended with our transport van wrecking 00:00:45.030 --> 00:00:49.909 literally moments ago. So buckle up because I'm 00:00:49.909 --> 00:00:53.210 about to tell you all about my week. Let me just 00:00:53.210 --> 00:00:55.710 start by saying Melissa, our foster coordinator 00:00:55.710 --> 00:01:00.129 who you've all talked to already has absolutely 00:01:00.129 --> 00:01:02.609 been kicking butt these last three transports. 00:01:02.770 --> 00:01:04.530 I mean, she always she's always done a good job, 00:01:04.650 --> 00:01:07.409 but these last two transports, she crushed it. 00:01:07.409 --> 00:01:11.269 And then this transport specifically would have 00:01:11.269 --> 00:01:16.489 made any other sane person throw in the towel 00:01:16.489 --> 00:01:20.010 and quit and walk away. So on Monday, when we 00:01:20.010 --> 00:01:22.409 found out that the storm was coming, Dr. Burton 00:01:22.409 --> 00:01:25.340 decided that we need to. to move transport from 00:01:25.340 --> 00:01:30.299 our typical Saturday departure to Friday. So 00:01:30.299 --> 00:01:33.219 leave Friday, arrive Saturday to avoid the storm. 00:01:34.260 --> 00:01:38.180 Unfortunately for Melissa, she was so on top 00:01:38.180 --> 00:01:42.159 of her game, doing such a great job at her job. 00:01:42.239 --> 00:01:45.480 She had already called and confirmed all of our 00:01:45.480 --> 00:01:48.879 fosters for this transport. for a Sunday morning 00:01:48.879 --> 00:01:52.239 pickup time, so changing the day and time meant 00:01:52.239 --> 00:01:54.640 that she had to call everyone again, make sure 00:01:54.640 --> 00:01:56.420 they could still pick up the animal that they 00:01:56.420 --> 00:02:00.040 were supposed to, and, you know, keep it an extra 00:02:00.040 --> 00:02:03.920 day. So a bummer for her, but not a big deal. 00:02:04.859 --> 00:02:11.240 Insert me. A big deal. Since we had a transport 00:02:11.240 --> 00:02:14.659 scheduled for this week and next week, I had 00:02:14.659 --> 00:02:18.539 previously been prioritizing animals from specific 00:02:18.539 --> 00:02:22.060 rescue partner groups so that each group would 00:02:22.060 --> 00:02:25.500 only have to make one trip out to me, not back 00:02:25.500 --> 00:02:29.000 -to -back weeks. Does that make sense? So all 00:02:29.000 --> 00:02:31.620 of our Alabama shelter friends were going to 00:02:31.620 --> 00:02:36.419 come on this transport and then none of our Alabama 00:02:36.419 --> 00:02:39.210 shelter friends were going to come next week 00:02:39.210 --> 00:02:41.169 so that they didn't have to make two trips in 00:02:41.169 --> 00:02:45.909 a row. However, when we saw how bad the storm 00:02:45.909 --> 00:02:49.009 was going to be and I realized that it meant 00:02:49.009 --> 00:02:52.430 all of the shelter animals were going to leave 00:02:52.430 --> 00:02:55.909 their shelter and be in Virginia foster homes 00:02:55.909 --> 00:02:59.110 while all of our outdoor fosters and our waitlist 00:02:59.110 --> 00:03:02.810 animals were going to be outside with minimal 00:03:02.810 --> 00:03:06.389 to no shelter. I was like, nope, we cannot do 00:03:06.389 --> 00:03:10.539 this. So on Tuesday I dropped a bomb on Melissa 00:03:10.539 --> 00:03:12.800 that not only did she need to call and confirm 00:03:12.800 --> 00:03:16.259 the new day and time with everyone, but you now 00:03:16.259 --> 00:03:20.120 need to call almost all of the fosters back again 00:03:20.120 --> 00:03:22.479 and tell them that the animal that they were 00:03:22.479 --> 00:03:24.599 expecting to get is not coming this transport. 00:03:24.659 --> 00:03:27.240 It's actually coming next week and these are 00:03:27.240 --> 00:03:28.939 the animals that are coming now. Do you want 00:03:28.939 --> 00:03:34.219 one of these? Literal chaos. Imagine, like imagine 00:03:34.219 --> 00:03:37.240 at your job. you spend an entire week doing your 00:03:37.240 --> 00:03:40.460 job exactly as you're supposed to and then someone 00:03:40.460 --> 00:03:42.659 comes up to you three days before your work is 00:03:42.659 --> 00:03:44.860 due and they go hey you're doing a great job 00:03:44.860 --> 00:03:48.280 by the way undo all of that and redo it now as 00:03:48.280 --> 00:03:50.020 quick as you can okay because you only have three 00:03:50.020 --> 00:03:54.719 days she didn't say anything mean to me to my 00:03:54.719 --> 00:03:57.219 face she was so nice but i bet she was cussing 00:03:57.219 --> 00:03:59.099 me under her breath when we got off the phone 00:03:59.099 --> 00:04:03.580 and and rightfully so She got it done though, 00:04:03.580 --> 00:04:05.620 and not only that, she got fosters for everyone 00:04:05.620 --> 00:04:08.139 that I swapped in place of the shelter animals, 00:04:08.139 --> 00:04:11.419 and then last night I asked to add on one more 00:04:11.419 --> 00:04:14.500 single so that its foster down here could take 00:04:14.500 --> 00:04:17.420 in a whole litter that we needed to get in instead 00:04:17.420 --> 00:04:22.519 of just having one puppy. So while Melissa is 00:04:22.519 --> 00:04:24.899 frantically recalling and reconfirming fosters 00:04:24.899 --> 00:04:27.000 and then finding new fosters to cover the new 00:04:27.000 --> 00:04:29.720 dogs for fosters who wanted to wait until their 00:04:29.720 --> 00:04:33.259 original dogs come up next week, We down here 00:04:33.259 --> 00:04:37.439 are frantically battening down the hatches because 00:04:37.439 --> 00:04:42.019 is literally catastrophic storm coming. So because 00:04:42.019 --> 00:04:44.980 we cut all of the Alabama shelter pups who are 00:04:44.980 --> 00:04:47.240 safe and warm and taken care of during the storm, 00:04:47.480 --> 00:04:50.639 they're fine. we were able to empty all of my 00:04:50.639 --> 00:04:53.779 fosters. So any of my indoor fosters who were 00:04:53.779 --> 00:04:55.899 fostering something got to send it on transport 00:04:55.899 --> 00:04:58.680 today and then take in new animals that would 00:04:58.680 --> 00:05:01.060 have been outside this weekend so that those 00:05:01.060 --> 00:05:04.079 animals are safe. And then any of my outdoor 00:05:04.079 --> 00:05:06.399 fosters got to send their animals on transport 00:05:06.399 --> 00:05:08.740 today and not worry about keeping anything warm 00:05:08.740 --> 00:05:11.720 and safe in their kennels this weekend when when 00:05:11.720 --> 00:05:13.560 things are it's going to be I think at one point 00:05:13.560 --> 00:05:17.360 it's going to be like four degrees insane. So 00:05:17.360 --> 00:05:21.759 things were looking up until Thursday When my 00:05:21.759 --> 00:05:25.339 transport driver who I love so dearly called 00:05:25.339 --> 00:05:28.269 and cancelled and don't get me wrong I wouldn't 00:05:28.269 --> 00:05:31.029 want to go either. I literally didn't go like 00:05:31.029 --> 00:05:33.389 like I found another driver so that I wouldn't 00:05:33.389 --> 00:05:36.410 have to go. She typically drives transport by 00:05:36.410 --> 00:05:39.029 herself and she drives there after work, spends 00:05:39.029 --> 00:05:41.370 the night and comes home the next day. However, 00:05:41.370 --> 00:05:43.910 because the storm was coming, she would have 00:05:43.910 --> 00:05:45.949 had to drive there and back the same day through 00:05:45.949 --> 00:05:49.649 the night after work in bad weather all alone. 00:05:49.689 --> 00:05:51.730 And she didn't feel comfortable doing that. Like 00:05:51.730 --> 00:05:55.529 who would? But that. definitely did not help 00:05:55.529 --> 00:05:59.629 my stress levels at all this week. So Jessica 00:05:59.629 --> 00:06:03.170 and I start desperately looking for new drivers 00:06:03.170 --> 00:06:07.040 and we had to change the meet time so that both 00:06:07.040 --> 00:06:09.399 drivers, the Virginia driver and the Mississippi 00:06:09.399 --> 00:06:11.779 driver, would be able to get back before the 00:06:11.779 --> 00:06:14.180 really bad weather hits. So for those of you 00:06:14.180 --> 00:06:16.939 who don't know how transport works, we have two 00:06:16.939 --> 00:06:20.620 cargo vans. One leaves from the Wolf Trap Hospital 00:06:20.620 --> 00:06:23.819 and it is full of supplies for me. The other 00:06:23.819 --> 00:06:27.259 leaves from the doghouse from transport in Mississippi 00:06:27.259 --> 00:06:31.180 full of animals. They meet halfway in Knoxville 00:06:31.180 --> 00:06:34.420 late at night. My driver gets out and gets in 00:06:34.420 --> 00:06:36.600 the Virginia van and the Virginia driver gets 00:06:36.600 --> 00:06:38.779 out and gets in the Mississippi van. And then 00:06:38.779 --> 00:06:41.120 they both drive right back where they came from. 00:06:41.560 --> 00:06:44.439 So each driver is just going to Knoxville and 00:06:44.439 --> 00:06:47.939 back. Jesse and I actually used to drive all 00:06:47.939 --> 00:06:49.879 the transports way, way, way back in the day. 00:06:49.879 --> 00:06:52.720 And he would say we were like ships passing in 00:06:52.720 --> 00:06:55.980 the night. That always used to make me laugh 00:06:55.980 --> 00:06:59.790 when he would say that. OK, so. We find a driver 00:06:59.790 --> 00:07:02.550 relatively quickly and easily given the circumstances 00:07:02.550 --> 00:07:06.870 things are better life is is good. My Walmart 00:07:06.870 --> 00:07:10.689 delivery order got picked up with minimal substitutions. 00:07:10.930 --> 00:07:14.610 Mary Sue, my 20 month old's snow suit, got delivered 00:07:14.610 --> 00:07:15.970 in time, so we're going to be able to play in 00:07:15.970 --> 00:07:18.470 the snow. All the animals are taken care of. 00:07:18.610 --> 00:07:21.949 Fosters are found. If we can just make it to 00:07:21.949 --> 00:07:24.589 Friday evening, life will be great. We can get 00:07:24.589 --> 00:07:27.490 snowed in all weekend, have a wonderful relaxing 00:07:27.490 --> 00:07:30.629 time, not worry about any animals. Just make 00:07:30.629 --> 00:07:33.170 it to Friday evening. Everything will be okay. 00:07:33.769 --> 00:07:37.790 Just got to get to Friday evening. So Friday 00:07:37.790 --> 00:07:42.410 evening arrives. Our drivers meet, swap vans 00:07:42.410 --> 00:07:45.470 and head back where they came from. That is very 00:07:45.470 --> 00:07:48.629 important. That is a critical note that Dr. Burton 00:07:48.629 --> 00:07:52.870 failed to read in my emergency text to her. The 00:07:52.870 --> 00:07:56.649 drivers had already swapped vans. So about two 00:07:56.649 --> 00:08:00.589 hours after swapping, my driver calls me. That 00:08:00.589 --> 00:08:03.089 is never good. And I'm not saying that because 00:08:03.089 --> 00:08:06.009 I hate talking on the phone, which I do. It's 00:08:06.009 --> 00:08:07.889 because it is never good news when your driver 00:08:07.889 --> 00:08:11.350 calls you. So I answer and he says, hey, Miss 00:08:11.350 --> 00:08:14.189 Katie, how's your day going today? And I said, 00:08:14.370 --> 00:08:16.709 well, Chris, it's going pretty good. Are you 00:08:16.709 --> 00:08:19.470 about to ruin it? And he goes, I'm afraid so. 00:08:20.189 --> 00:08:24.310 He explains that he got in an accident when an 00:08:24.310 --> 00:08:27.529 18 wheeler like. came over into his lane and 00:08:27.529 --> 00:08:30.689 so he veered over onto the shoulder to avoid 00:08:30.689 --> 00:08:33.909 getting hit and it looked like the guard rail 00:08:33.909 --> 00:08:36.769 had been hit before so it was like bent and poking 00:08:36.769 --> 00:08:41.129 out the metal part and it sliced through our 00:08:41.129 --> 00:08:44.870 tire. Totally fine, I say. We have AAA for this 00:08:44.870 --> 00:08:48.090 reason. They will have you back on the road in 00:08:48.090 --> 00:08:52.169 a jiffy. Oh friends, I could not have been more 00:08:52.169 --> 00:08:56.200 wrong, so... While we're on the phone, Highway 00:08:56.200 --> 00:09:00.340 Patrol arrives. And so technically, he's in Georgia 00:09:00.340 --> 00:09:02.799 right now, which if you're like me and you're 00:09:02.799 --> 00:09:06.480 like, why you're leaving from Mississippi, you're 00:09:06.480 --> 00:09:09.100 meeting in Tennessee, why would you be in Georgia? 00:09:09.259 --> 00:09:14.399 There's like literally one mile of interstate 00:09:14.399 --> 00:09:17.559 where you leave Tennessee, you go through Georgia, 00:09:17.559 --> 00:09:21.879 and then you're back in Tennessee. So he's in 00:09:21.879 --> 00:09:28.330 Georgia and I guess Tennessee Highway Patrol 00:09:28.330 --> 00:09:31.870 shows up and they're like, or no, I guess Georgia 00:09:31.870 --> 00:09:34.330 Highway Patrol shows up and they're like, oh, 00:09:34.570 --> 00:09:37.090 well, actually where you hit is in Tennessee. 00:09:37.309 --> 00:09:38.950 So Tennessee is actually going to have to come 00:09:38.950 --> 00:09:42.070 out here. So like a whole big long thing. And 00:09:42.070 --> 00:09:45.070 I'm like, I'm kidding. Like you're it's you can 00:09:45.070 --> 00:09:47.870 see the state line. I don't know. It's so ridiculous. 00:09:48.450 --> 00:09:50.580 So. While we're on the phone, Highway Patrol 00:09:50.580 --> 00:09:53.720 arrives, they tell him zero chance he can drive 00:09:53.720 --> 00:09:55.799 the van the way it is because it's way worse 00:09:55.799 --> 00:09:59.139 than he originally thought. So they also explain 00:09:59.139 --> 00:10:02.539 that AAA doesn't work on the interstate, at least 00:10:02.539 --> 00:10:05.659 there, I don't know. So they have to call on 00:10:05.659 --> 00:10:09.179 their end and have them come. Otherwise, AAA 00:10:09.179 --> 00:10:12.460 won't be able to find where my driver is. Whatever. 00:10:12.919 --> 00:10:15.379 So the tow truck arrives, confirms what the officer 00:10:15.379 --> 00:10:17.539 said, explains that there's no way the van's 00:10:17.539 --> 00:10:19.820 gonna be drivable tonight, and actually probably 00:10:19.820 --> 00:10:22.360 won't even be able to be looked at anywhere until 00:10:22.360 --> 00:10:26.899 Monday. Thank you, Storm. But he'll tow my van 00:10:26.899 --> 00:10:30.519 and my driver back to the doghouse back home 00:10:30.519 --> 00:10:35.360 for $1 ,100. Such a bummer, but oh well. Come 00:10:35.360 --> 00:10:39.159 on home. It's fine. Actually, no is actually 00:10:39.159 --> 00:10:42.490 gonna be one thousand eight hundred plus the 00:10:42.490 --> 00:10:44.710 three hundred dollar triple a fee for the cops 00:10:44.710 --> 00:10:47.169 calling instead of us. I'm like, whatever. Just 00:10:47.169 --> 00:10:49.370 just get our guy home at this point. I don't 00:10:49.370 --> 00:10:53.029 care. We'll just we'll pay it. Actually, no. 00:10:53.429 --> 00:10:56.129 Just called my boss, the owner of the tow truck, 00:10:56.129 --> 00:10:58.230 and he said the weather is going to be getting 00:10:58.230 --> 00:11:01.330 so bad. He doesn't want to risk his truck getting 00:11:01.330 --> 00:11:04.549 stranded. And so the guy is not allowed to tow 00:11:04.549 --> 00:11:07.590 the van back to Mississippi. I'm like, OK, well. 00:11:07.799 --> 00:11:09.659 How far can you bring it? Because remember, I 00:11:09.659 --> 00:11:12.059 live in Alabama, so like, you know, can we meet 00:11:12.059 --> 00:11:15.960 here? Nope. Can't tow it anywhere. He doesn't 00:11:15.960 --> 00:11:18.779 even want his truck to leave the area that they're 00:11:18.779 --> 00:11:23.379 in. I'm like, fantastic. OK, so I get back on 00:11:23.379 --> 00:11:25.000 the phone with my driver and I'm like, listen, 00:11:25.139 --> 00:11:27.299 ball's in your court. What do you want to do? 00:11:27.340 --> 00:11:29.940 I can put you up at a hotel until the van gets 00:11:29.940 --> 00:11:32.500 fixed. You bring it home. Is that going to be 00:11:32.500 --> 00:11:34.639 Monday? Is that going to be two months from now? 00:11:34.639 --> 00:11:38.570 I don't know. Or I can come get you tonight. 00:11:38.570 --> 00:11:40.769 I can get you back home. You'll be with your 00:11:40.769 --> 00:11:43.590 family before the storm hits You can spend the 00:11:43.590 --> 00:11:46.169 night get a hotel tonight See how bad it is in 00:11:46.169 --> 00:11:47.929 the morning and then decide what do you want 00:11:47.929 --> 00:11:50.269 to do? And he's so nice and he just like kept 00:11:50.269 --> 00:11:52.649 apologizing and saying miss Katie. I feel so 00:11:52.649 --> 00:11:54.750 awful that this happened I don't want to make 00:11:54.750 --> 00:11:57.850 you get out in this weather. My wife is blowing 00:11:57.850 --> 00:12:00.129 up my phone though she's freaking out that she 00:12:00.129 --> 00:12:03.549 may be snowed in alone and so he's like I gotta 00:12:03.549 --> 00:12:05.750 get home to her. I totally get that, like especially 00:12:05.750 --> 00:12:09.389 for her because she lived through the ice storm 00:12:09.389 --> 00:12:13.190 of 94 in our town. We had like no snow, it was 00:12:13.190 --> 00:12:16.190 just ice, but because it came through all at 00:12:16.190 --> 00:12:19.360 once and it was so heavy there were hundreds 00:12:19.360 --> 00:12:23.779 and hundreds of people without power for two 00:12:23.779 --> 00:12:26.539 weeks. Some even went three weeks without power. 00:12:26.820 --> 00:12:29.879 It took forever for the roads to thaw. So everyone 00:12:29.879 --> 00:12:33.740 was just stuck wherever they were for days and 00:12:33.740 --> 00:12:37.120 days. That's actually why my graduating class 00:12:37.120 --> 00:12:39.460 was so big. And by so big, I mean there were 00:12:39.460 --> 00:12:42.139 86 kids in it, which is crazy big for down here. 00:12:42.570 --> 00:12:45.029 I won't elaborate on that any further in case 00:12:45.029 --> 00:12:46.990 there's any little ears listening, but if you 00:12:46.990 --> 00:12:50.629 do the math, I graduated 18 years and nine months 00:12:50.629 --> 00:12:55.490 after the ice storm of 94. I'm losing the plot 00:12:55.490 --> 00:12:59.350 here though. Okay, so let me wrap this up. Anyways... 00:12:59.970 --> 00:13:03.529 he decides his son is gonna come get him and 00:13:03.529 --> 00:13:05.309 drive him back home tonight so that he can be 00:13:05.309 --> 00:13:07.830 there with his wife if they lose power or anything 00:13:07.830 --> 00:13:10.570 and then when the van is done and the roads are 00:13:10.570 --> 00:13:12.230 clear he's gonna go back and get it because he's 00:13:12.230 --> 00:13:14.149 laid off right now and he's like I'm more than 00:13:14.149 --> 00:13:17.740 happy to go get it so They tow the van to a body 00:13:17.740 --> 00:13:20.700 shop right there and weather permitting, they're 00:13:20.700 --> 00:13:23.659 going to start working on it on Monday and hopefully 00:13:23.659 --> 00:13:26.059 won't have to order any parts or anything like 00:13:26.059 --> 00:13:28.620 that because the tow truck driver was like, yeah, 00:13:28.620 --> 00:13:30.100 man, you better hope you don't have to get parts 00:13:30.100 --> 00:13:32.080 because parts are really hard to get nowadays. 00:13:32.360 --> 00:13:34.899 I'm like, OK, that's great. Great for my stress. 00:13:35.840 --> 00:13:38.500 I'm also my mom was like, oh, wow, hope they 00:13:38.500 --> 00:13:40.460 don't just total it out. I'm like, oh, yeah, 00:13:41.000 --> 00:13:45.110 yeah, I really hope that. I'm very, very worried 00:13:45.110 --> 00:13:48.090 about my van. In the meantime, because it's going 00:13:48.090 --> 00:13:50.450 to be like five hours before his son gets there, 00:13:50.669 --> 00:13:53.470 I was like, just go get a hotel room. Just go. 00:13:53.629 --> 00:13:56.029 If you guys decide to stay until morning, great. 00:13:56.070 --> 00:13:59.049 If not, like he can just settle down, take a 00:13:59.049 --> 00:14:01.889 nap, recover from this roller coaster of emotions 00:14:01.889 --> 00:14:04.470 he just went through. And then hopefully he'll 00:14:04.470 --> 00:14:07.850 be rested enough to stay awake or help drive 00:14:07.850 --> 00:14:10.950 home so his son can sleep. But when I told him. 00:14:11.049 --> 00:14:13.289 he was like no no no i'll just have him drop 00:14:13.289 --> 00:14:15.549 me off at like a 24 hour gas station or something 00:14:15.549 --> 00:14:19.470 and i'm like no get a room take a nap just relax 00:14:19.470 --> 00:14:23.100 for a few hours i'm serious and so We were on 00:14:23.100 --> 00:14:24.899 the phone and he says to the tow truck driver, 00:14:25.139 --> 00:14:27.259 you got any five star hotels around here? But 00:14:27.259 --> 00:14:30.440 he was kidding. He went to like a super eight 00:14:30.440 --> 00:14:32.779 motel or something like that. That was his compromise. 00:14:33.039 --> 00:14:36.799 But oh, OK, so back to Dr. Burton. I send a message 00:14:36.799 --> 00:14:40.259 in our group chat and I'm like, my driver just 00:14:40.259 --> 00:14:42.480 wrecked our van. This is what happened. Here's 00:14:42.480 --> 00:14:45.909 the pictures. and I thought because I said my 00:14:45.909 --> 00:14:50.190 driver and my van she knew that it was just my 00:14:50.190 --> 00:14:52.529 driver in the van with the supplies not the driver 00:14:52.529 --> 00:14:55.409 with the puppies, but she didn't realize that 00:14:55.409 --> 00:14:57.450 they had already swapped because remember we 00:14:57.450 --> 00:15:00.330 moved the meat time earlier so really they they 00:15:00.330 --> 00:15:03.830 shouldn't have swapped yet because we moved it 00:15:03.830 --> 00:15:06.909 like I don't like three hours earlier. So she 00:15:06.909 --> 00:15:09.350 calls me literally in hysterics and she's like, 00:15:09.389 --> 00:15:11.230 what are we going to do? That van is absolutely 00:15:11.230 --> 00:15:13.769 not drivable. How far away is the other van? 00:15:13.889 --> 00:15:16.970 And I'm like, what? Like, why would we have the 00:15:16.970 --> 00:15:19.169 other van come back? Like, what would that help? 00:15:19.470 --> 00:15:21.529 And then we both realized at the same time what 00:15:21.529 --> 00:15:24.009 the other one was thinking. And I was like, well, 00:15:24.009 --> 00:15:27.720 wait. They already swapped. Your driver, for 00:15:27.720 --> 00:15:30.480 now at least, is totally fine. The animals are 00:15:30.480 --> 00:15:32.679 safe. This is my driver coming home with the 00:15:32.679 --> 00:15:35.019 supplies." And she's like, you just took me from 00:15:35.019 --> 00:15:38.580 a level 15 to a level five instantly. She's like, 00:15:38.639 --> 00:15:42.519 I don't even care now. She was kidding, but really, 00:15:42.580 --> 00:15:44.879 if this had to happen tonight, this was pretty 00:15:44.879 --> 00:15:48.200 much best case scenario. If you have been around 00:15:48.200 --> 00:15:50.240 since last year, though, you might be getting 00:15:50.240 --> 00:15:53.980 a little deja vu. We have been doing these transports 00:15:53.980 --> 00:15:57.519 every other week for over 10 years now, and we 00:15:57.519 --> 00:16:02.159 have had three wrecks. One was like, I don't 00:16:02.159 --> 00:16:05.360 even remember, like 2018, 2019, pre -COVID, I'm 00:16:05.360 --> 00:16:08.240 pretty sure, our wonderful Jeannie, who I love 00:16:08.240 --> 00:16:11.919 so, so much. She was driving home with the puppies 00:16:11.919 --> 00:16:15.179 and she hit a deer, but like they came, they 00:16:15.179 --> 00:16:17.340 got the animals, they towed the truck. It was 00:16:17.340 --> 00:16:20.820 fine. It wasn't a big deal. Then just last year, 00:16:20.960 --> 00:16:24.860 almost to the day we got in another wreck. But 00:16:24.860 --> 00:16:28.279 what's even eerier is I totally predicted that 00:16:28.279 --> 00:16:30.220 this was going to happen today and it's totally 00:16:30.220 --> 00:16:35.399 Melissa's fault. Last year on Transport that 00:16:35.399 --> 00:16:38.360 was going to have a Valentine's Day weekend adoption 00:16:38.360 --> 00:16:42.480 day, like this one, we did a Valentine's Day 00:16:42.480 --> 00:16:45.139 theme with like lovey -dovey pet names. That 00:16:45.139 --> 00:16:48.320 van got in a bad, bad wreck. Total the van... 00:16:48.429 --> 00:16:51.710 It was awful. But thankfully, it was only 20 00:16:51.710 --> 00:16:56.190 minutes from the Wolf Trap Hospital. So the driver 00:16:56.190 --> 00:16:58.509 gets taken to the hospital, the human hospital, 00:16:58.669 --> 00:17:01.090 and he's fine, you know, just getting checked 00:17:01.090 --> 00:17:03.190 out. Several of our animals got loose on the 00:17:03.190 --> 00:17:06.170 interstate. All the puppies were found. Five 00:17:06.170 --> 00:17:08.349 cats went missing. We found two of them, but 00:17:08.349 --> 00:17:11.910 we never found the other three. Okay. So earlier 00:17:11.910 --> 00:17:15.230 this week, Melissa says she wants to do names 00:17:15.230 --> 00:17:17.509 for this transport. And if you know me, you know 00:17:17.509 --> 00:17:20.089 I will never not want someone else to do names 00:17:20.089 --> 00:17:24.210 for me. I'm like, absolutely go for it. But when 00:17:24.210 --> 00:17:26.049 I realized when she put the names in and I looked 00:17:26.049 --> 00:17:28.250 at it, when I realized she was doing a Valentine's 00:17:28.250 --> 00:17:31.269 Day lovey dovey name theme again, I immediately 00:17:31.269 --> 00:17:33.829 texted Jenny and I was like, what do you think? 00:17:33.950 --> 00:17:37.009 Am I crazy? Like. Is it even safe to speak these 00:17:37.009 --> 00:17:39.529 names again? Are we jinxing ourselves? Like, 00:17:39.529 --> 00:17:41.650 what is happening? Jenny's like, I thought the 00:17:41.650 --> 00:17:43.410 same thing, especially with the storm coming. 00:17:43.730 --> 00:17:48.109 Like, this is just bad, bad juju. Here's the 00:17:48.109 --> 00:17:52.450 thing, though. Jenny and I are so sick of coming 00:17:52.450 --> 00:17:54.430 up with names that we didn't even tell Melissa 00:17:54.430 --> 00:17:57.470 this because we didn't want to have to come up 00:17:57.470 --> 00:18:00.769 with a theme ourselves and do the names. So we 00:18:00.769 --> 00:18:02.490 didn't say anything. We left the names the same. 00:18:02.970 --> 00:18:06.049 But as soon as my driver called me, I texted 00:18:06.049 --> 00:18:07.869 Jenny. I might have even texted Jenny before 00:18:07.869 --> 00:18:10.210 I texted Dr. Burton in the group chat. I'll have 00:18:10.210 --> 00:18:13.609 to check. But I texted Jenny and told her what 00:18:13.609 --> 00:18:16.630 happened. And she said, you totally did call 00:18:16.630 --> 00:18:21.990 that. So I am very proud of my psychic abilities, 00:18:22.069 --> 00:18:27.809 but wish I could have prevented it somehow. So 00:18:27.809 --> 00:18:31.509 here it is Friday evening. I am not any less 00:18:31.509 --> 00:18:34.470 stressed than I thought I would be but I do have 00:18:34.470 --> 00:18:37.410 to say my people in Virginia and my people in 00:18:37.410 --> 00:18:41.549 Mississippi absolutely Crushed it this week. 00:18:41.670 --> 00:18:48.369 I am I am just so amazed by this whole team Melissa 00:18:48.369 --> 00:18:51.690 got a foster for every single animal that we 00:18:51.690 --> 00:18:54.829 needed to send literally every single animal 00:18:54.940 --> 00:18:57.519 shout out to all of you who signed up to foster 00:18:57.519 --> 00:19:00.299 and especially those of you who signed up to 00:19:00.299 --> 00:19:02.119 foster and then we were like just kidding will 00:19:02.119 --> 00:19:03.539 you take something else instead and you were 00:19:03.539 --> 00:19:06.539 like yeah sure you guys were so flexible with 00:19:06.539 --> 00:19:09.740 all the changes i am so so grateful and then 00:19:09.740 --> 00:19:12.579 my mississippi people got every single animal 00:19:12.579 --> 00:19:16.119 we were asked to to help with indoors and safe 00:19:16.119 --> 00:19:19.099 before the storm hit. Now, there's definitely 00:19:19.099 --> 00:19:21.940 still animals outside that will probably definitely 00:19:21.940 --> 00:19:24.880 freeze to death this weekend, but none that we 00:19:24.880 --> 00:19:27.119 know about and none that we were asked to help 00:19:27.119 --> 00:19:29.779 with. And that is going to help me sleep so much 00:19:29.779 --> 00:19:32.339 better tonight. As soon as my driver gets home 00:19:32.339 --> 00:19:36.450 and I know he's safe. But oh my goodness gracious 00:19:36.450 --> 00:19:38.470 that was such a long intro if this is your first 00:19:38.470 --> 00:19:41.509 time listening I am so sorry like I am known 00:19:41.509 --> 00:19:44.569 to talk a lot but never 20 minutes just on an 00:19:44.569 --> 00:19:49.210 intro a lot Let's get into the stories the whole 00:19:49.210 --> 00:19:54.170 reason you guys are even here Valentine so another 00:19:54.170 --> 00:19:56.309 rescue asked if we could take him because she 00:19:56.309 --> 00:19:58.470 didn't have room for him and we said absolutely 00:19:58.470 --> 00:20:01.910 He is actually the last minute add -on So that 00:20:01.910 --> 00:20:04.900 his foster could take in a whole litter right 00:20:04.900 --> 00:20:07.720 after she dropped him off. He was found and left 00:20:07.720 --> 00:20:12.619 in a barn by himself. Apple of my eye was my 00:20:12.619 --> 00:20:15.200 baby. Like literally the apple of my eye. Listen, 00:20:15.599 --> 00:20:18.200 y 'all OGs know that I don't do puppies. Give 00:20:18.200 --> 00:20:22.259 me all of the adult dogs. I do not foster puppies 00:20:22.259 --> 00:20:26.390 unless they are sick and dying. But when my neighbor 00:20:26.390 --> 00:20:28.930 showed up to my house last week with this itty 00:20:28.930 --> 00:20:32.529 bitty teeny tiny mangy thing, I had no choice 00:20:32.529 --> 00:20:35.869 but to foster him. He was found in the ditch 00:20:35.869 --> 00:20:38.990 just a few yards away from my house and my neighbor 00:20:38.990 --> 00:20:42.730 Rob, who I am literally obsessed with and think 00:20:42.730 --> 00:20:46.470 is the coolest person ever, saw him while he 00:20:46.470 --> 00:20:48.789 was on his tractor taking care of his cows. Have 00:20:48.789 --> 00:20:51.190 you figured out yet why I think he's so cool? 00:20:52.440 --> 00:20:54.839 He sees him while he's on his tractor, hops down, 00:20:54.920 --> 00:20:57.559 picks him up. He knows I do animal rescue because, 00:20:57.660 --> 00:21:01.160 A, I just took friend a few weeks ago from his 00:21:01.160 --> 00:21:03.839 brother and he saw friend at my house all the 00:21:03.839 --> 00:21:08.000 time. And because I am literally just about every 00:21:08.000 --> 00:21:11.200 day in his field feeding and snuggling his cows. 00:21:12.019 --> 00:21:15.619 So he brings this puppy over to my house. Now, 00:21:15.640 --> 00:21:17.940 y 'all remember right after I moved into the 00:21:17.940 --> 00:21:21.490 house, like literally a few weeks in. I had parvo 00:21:21.490 --> 00:21:24.569 puppies here, so I am still on parvo lockdown. 00:21:25.029 --> 00:21:28.369 But because Dr. Burton has taught me and trained 00:21:28.369 --> 00:21:31.970 me so well, I am fairly confident in my cross 00:21:31.970 --> 00:21:35.029 -contamination tracking and I know what areas 00:21:35.029 --> 00:21:39.750 are still parvo free and what areas are a parvo 00:21:39.750 --> 00:21:42.710 hotbed in my house. So we bring the puppy in, 00:21:42.730 --> 00:21:45.220 we put him in the bathroom right away. Mary Sue 00:21:45.220 --> 00:21:48.400 is absolutely unbelievably tickled to death. 00:21:48.480 --> 00:21:50.079 Remember what she was like with those kittens? 00:21:50.539 --> 00:21:53.880 Just like that, just like it. And so Justin, 00:21:53.980 --> 00:21:56.539 my husband, is talking to the puppy and he goes, 00:21:56.759 --> 00:22:01.319 hey buddy. And Mary Sue started saying over and 00:22:01.319 --> 00:22:04.259 over, she was trying to say, hey buddy, but she 00:22:04.259 --> 00:22:07.380 couldn't say buddy. So she was going, hey Bodie, 00:22:07.740 --> 00:22:12.359 oh Bodie Bodie, sweet Bodie. So obviously we 00:22:12.359 --> 00:22:16.220 named him Bodhi. They were two peas and a pod 00:22:16.220 --> 00:22:18.960 for about four days. I'm for real They were stinking 00:22:18.960 --> 00:22:21.970 cute together uh and then I said he cannot live 00:22:21.970 --> 00:22:24.250 in our bathroom anymore because he is driving 00:22:24.250 --> 00:22:26.589 me crazy and he can't go outside in our yard 00:22:26.589 --> 00:22:28.230 and like that's not fair to him because I do 00:22:28.230 --> 00:22:30.990 have parvo in my yard so I sent him to one of 00:22:30.990 --> 00:22:34.150 my fosters he was just as happy there probably 00:22:34.150 --> 00:22:36.390 even happier to be away from Mary Sue over there 00:22:36.390 --> 00:22:40.349 but me and Mary Sue and Bodie were all so excited 00:22:40.349 --> 00:22:43.230 for our little mini reunion at transport today 00:22:43.230 --> 00:22:45.960 he looks So much better. His hair is growing 00:22:45.960 --> 00:22:48.519 back great. His little face was all scabbed up 00:22:48.519 --> 00:22:50.440 and pitiful when I had him, likely from mange, 00:22:50.539 --> 00:22:53.579 but it could have even been a flea allergy. We 00:22:53.579 --> 00:22:56.000 never found any other puppies on the road or 00:22:56.000 --> 00:22:59.779 anywhere around, but someone a few roads over 00:22:59.779 --> 00:23:02.819 found one that looked just like him and was roughly 00:23:02.819 --> 00:23:05.940 around the same age. But she gave him away before 00:23:05.940 --> 00:23:10.029 I could get it. Anyways, we love our Bodhi baby 00:23:10.029 --> 00:23:12.349 so much and we would love any and all updates 00:23:12.349 --> 00:23:17.269 on him from whoever fosters him. The tea litter 00:23:17.269 --> 00:23:22.130 of three, the owners of the mama dog actually 00:23:22.559 --> 00:23:25.680 ran the mama dog over on their way to school 00:23:25.680 --> 00:23:29.119 one day. Very traumatic for everybody. They raced 00:23:29.119 --> 00:23:31.700 her to the vet, but she didn't make it. The puppies 00:23:31.700 --> 00:23:34.819 were 11 days old. They went to our bottle feeder 00:23:34.819 --> 00:23:37.980 foster and then they went to mama Becky when 00:23:37.980 --> 00:23:43.180 they were just just finally weaning. And Becky 00:23:43.180 --> 00:23:46.700 said that's that she's had them for three years 00:23:46.700 --> 00:23:49.000 and that's what these last three weeks have felt 00:23:49.000 --> 00:23:52.609 like. It's been a long time since our last transport. 00:23:53.750 --> 00:23:56.269 The S litter of five, one puppy showed up at 00:23:56.269 --> 00:23:58.650 a lady's house. They heard a car door or something 00:23:58.650 --> 00:24:00.809 outside and they went to look and this puppy 00:24:00.809 --> 00:24:03.549 was in their carport. We were making plans to 00:24:03.549 --> 00:24:06.589 get it to a foster and then she said, oh, we 00:24:06.589 --> 00:24:09.329 found it a good home, quote unquote, good home 00:24:09.329 --> 00:24:12.250 with somebody that they knew. So two days later, 00:24:12.549 --> 00:24:15.069 another puppy shows up. Uh, and then the next 00:24:15.069 --> 00:24:17.710 day she realizes there were five more of these 00:24:17.710 --> 00:24:21.609 puppies at her neighbor's house. They were so 00:24:21.609 --> 00:24:25.490 Adorable so staking adorable that we knew she 00:24:25.490 --> 00:24:28.049 would absolutely give every single one away. 00:24:28.529 --> 00:24:34.849 So This is actually, uh, jessica pole But we 00:24:34.849 --> 00:24:37.109 called Tasha and we were like, Tasha, do you 00:24:37.109 --> 00:24:39.390 have any fosters? All of our fosters are full. 00:24:39.690 --> 00:24:41.890 And she had someone that was able to take them. 00:24:41.890 --> 00:24:45.109 So the next day one puppy was missing. They never 00:24:45.109 --> 00:24:47.430 found it. I'm wondering if the lady gave it away. 00:24:47.950 --> 00:24:51.069 But the lady loaded up the other five and took 00:24:51.069 --> 00:24:54.029 them to meet Tasha. And then Tasha almost kept 00:24:54.029 --> 00:24:56.630 one, too. But luckily, she knew what I would 00:24:56.630 --> 00:25:01.369 do to her. So she sent it with the others. The 00:25:01.369 --> 00:25:05.789 K litter of two one of our fosters friends she 00:25:05.789 --> 00:25:09.710 runs a daycare for kids not for dogs and She 00:25:09.710 --> 00:25:12.170 texted our foster a picture of two little puppies 00:25:12.170 --> 00:25:14.809 that had shown up outside the daycare She took 00:25:14.809 --> 00:25:17.329 them inside and asked if she would just swing 00:25:17.329 --> 00:25:20.029 by and get them on her way home that day Which 00:25:20.029 --> 00:25:23.369 she absolutely did it and if I haven't yet Remind 00:25:23.369 --> 00:25:25.730 me to post their picture and the fosters page 00:25:25.730 --> 00:25:28.069 because it is the absolute cutest picture you 00:25:28.069 --> 00:25:32.230 will ever see The F letter of two, a lady was 00:25:32.230 --> 00:25:35.609 doing door dash delivery at way way way out in 00:25:35.609 --> 00:25:38.289 the boonies and she turned around at a church 00:25:38.289 --> 00:25:41.269 cemetery and she saw these two teeny tiny puppies. 00:25:41.710 --> 00:25:43.970 Her husband is going through some pretty major 00:25:43.970 --> 00:25:46.309 health issues but she scooped them up and hung 00:25:46.309 --> 00:25:48.069 on to them for a couple days until we could take 00:25:48.069 --> 00:25:50.170 them. She was also trying to give them away on 00:25:50.170 --> 00:25:53.309 Facebook though for free. She's actually a good 00:25:53.309 --> 00:25:55.089 friend of ours. She's not a good friend. She's 00:25:55.089 --> 00:25:57.549 a friend that we know and she used to be a good 00:25:57.549 --> 00:26:00.809 foster for us so we were happy to help her but 00:26:00.809 --> 00:26:04.529 we were kind of tickled because she said that 00:26:04.529 --> 00:26:06.269 she wasn't able to keep them in her house. She 00:26:06.269 --> 00:26:08.490 had to keep them outside because her husband 00:26:08.490 --> 00:26:12.630 is a lung transplant recipient and she doesn't 00:26:12.630 --> 00:26:14.509 want him around these puppies because they're 00:26:14.509 --> 00:26:17.640 unvaccinated. Don't get me wrong. Puppies are 00:26:17.640 --> 00:26:22.940 gross. 100%. But you're not going to catch anything 00:26:22.940 --> 00:26:25.140 from puppies just because they're vaccinated. 00:26:25.859 --> 00:26:27.920 It doesn't matter if they're vaccinated or not. 00:26:28.319 --> 00:26:31.220 Meanwhile, we have my stage four cancer mom and 00:26:31.220 --> 00:26:33.920 my stage four cancer stepdad fostering dozens 00:26:33.920 --> 00:26:37.200 of puppies every month for us. But it was funny. 00:26:37.380 --> 00:26:41.450 We were happy to help. The older of three, the 00:26:41.450 --> 00:26:44.430 mama dog belonged to the niece of one of our 00:26:44.430 --> 00:26:48.109 fosters and she was hit by a car on Christmas 00:26:48.109 --> 00:26:51.890 Eve. Can you even imagine? They live on a 60 00:26:51.890 --> 00:26:54.470 acre farm and she rarely went close to the road. 00:26:54.490 --> 00:26:56.589 So they were shocked that this happened. The 00:26:56.589 --> 00:26:59.309 guy who hit her brought her up to their house 00:26:59.309 --> 00:27:03.950 just apologizing, which is so unheard of around 00:27:03.950 --> 00:27:07.660 here. I cannot stress how rare, that is that 00:27:07.660 --> 00:27:12.500 people even stop if they hit a dog. So our foster, 00:27:12.559 --> 00:27:15.140 the aunt, took the puppies and bottle fed them, 00:27:15.140 --> 00:27:18.099 and she has spoiled them terribly for the last 00:27:18.099 --> 00:27:20.900 month. The day that we vaccinated them, she made 00:27:20.900 --> 00:27:23.160 them a special homemade chicken dinner since 00:27:23.160 --> 00:27:25.859 it was such a traumatic day for them, she said. 00:27:27.909 --> 00:27:30.430 The G letter of three where owner surrenders, 00:27:30.569 --> 00:27:32.630 the owner messaged us on Facebook asking if we 00:27:32.630 --> 00:27:35.170 could take the two black ones and I was like, 00:27:35.170 --> 00:27:37.869 um, yes, absolutely. And then she was like, great, 00:27:37.869 --> 00:27:39.670 I've been trying to get rid of all of them, but 00:27:39.670 --> 00:27:42.049 I just can't find anyone to give these last two 00:27:42.049 --> 00:27:44.410 away. And I've got another lady who was supposed 00:27:44.410 --> 00:27:46.490 to come get this third one, but she hasn't messaged 00:27:46.490 --> 00:27:49.009 me back yet and I keep calling her. And then 00:27:49.009 --> 00:27:51.210 she sent me a picture of the brown one. And listen, 00:27:51.289 --> 00:27:54.009 I'm not a doodle lover. Like, I don't get it, 00:27:54.009 --> 00:27:57.519 but... I know y 'all are and that is why I fight 00:27:57.519 --> 00:28:00.539 so hard to get doodles for you guys and why I 00:28:00.539 --> 00:28:02.920 fought so hard to get all three of these. So 00:28:02.920 --> 00:28:04.980 I immediately told the woman if she would give 00:28:04.980 --> 00:28:08.640 us all three I would make sure we had a foster 00:28:08.640 --> 00:28:11.359 for them a whole week sooner. So they were originally 00:28:11.359 --> 00:28:13.619 supposed to go next weekend but I was going to 00:28:13.619 --> 00:28:16.180 send them to a foster down here after this transport 00:28:16.180 --> 00:28:18.500 if she would let me have all three of them and 00:28:18.500 --> 00:28:20.079 we would give her a spay voucher for the mom. 00:28:20.240 --> 00:28:23.619 She was as excited to give me all three as I 00:28:23.619 --> 00:28:26.700 was excited to get all three. So you're welcome. 00:28:28.500 --> 00:28:31.359 The Bee family, one rescue agreed to take the 00:28:31.359 --> 00:28:33.279 puppies but said that they couldn't take the 00:28:33.279 --> 00:28:36.019 mom. And then another rescue that really didn't 00:28:36.019 --> 00:28:39.420 have any room went and got the puppies and left 00:28:39.420 --> 00:28:43.569 the mom there. They were just abandoned. So Tasha 00:28:43.569 --> 00:28:46.470 asked if she could help the rescue just by taking 00:28:46.470 --> 00:28:48.410 the puppies since they didn't have room for them 00:28:48.410 --> 00:28:51.769 anyways, and they agreed. And then Tasha, sneaky 00:28:51.769 --> 00:28:54.109 little Tasha, had one of her friends go and get 00:28:54.109 --> 00:28:56.150 the mom so she could reunite them back together. 00:28:56.289 --> 00:28:58.950 The mom was so happy to be back with her babies 00:28:58.950 --> 00:29:01.210 because the babies were only about four weeks 00:29:01.210 --> 00:29:03.309 old at the time, so they should have still been 00:29:03.309 --> 00:29:07.349 with their mom. And then a few days later they 00:29:07.349 --> 00:29:11.640 broke with Parvo. The first one... it was just 00:29:11.640 --> 00:29:13.700 one of the puppies that broke and then the mom 00:29:13.700 --> 00:29:16.460 got it a few days later. Luckily they were with 00:29:16.460 --> 00:29:20.299 our wonderful rescue partner Tasha who is unfortunately 00:29:20.299 --> 00:29:24.019 for her a parvo expert at this point so she caught 00:29:24.019 --> 00:29:26.220 it super quick. She knew exactly what to do for 00:29:26.220 --> 00:29:29.099 them and they bounced back in record time but 00:29:29.099 --> 00:29:31.519 unfortunately because of when they broke they 00:29:31.519 --> 00:29:34.710 had to miss last transport which meant Tasha 00:29:34.710 --> 00:29:37.769 had to keep them for a very very very long time 00:29:37.769 --> 00:29:42.130 so she's very excited to get rid of them. The 00:29:42.130 --> 00:29:45.410 D family. So a homeowner found these puppies 00:29:45.410 --> 00:29:47.789 and the mama out in the woods behind her house. 00:29:48.130 --> 00:29:51.009 She had to feed them for a week or so before 00:29:51.009 --> 00:29:52.789 she could even get her hands on the puppies. 00:29:53.109 --> 00:29:54.950 She brought them home. She put them in her dog 00:29:54.950 --> 00:29:57.970 pen and the county that she lives in just had 00:29:57.970 --> 00:30:01.470 a hoarding case where over 200 dogs were seized 00:30:01.470 --> 00:30:04.250 from a property. So all the shelters and rescues 00:30:04.250 --> 00:30:07.250 are just so over capacity over there. No one 00:30:07.250 --> 00:30:10.029 would help her. So she reached out to us and 00:30:10.029 --> 00:30:12.990 we were very happy to help. help her. Stay tuned 00:30:12.990 --> 00:30:18.009 for the story on the hoarding case because some 00:30:18.009 --> 00:30:20.369 of those will be coming on a future transport 00:30:20.369 --> 00:30:26.009 in a few weeks and it's wild. As for the cats, 00:30:26.730 --> 00:30:29.349 Cupcake was dumped at Dr. Jamie's clinic. Dr. 00:30:29.470 --> 00:30:32.109 Jamie was Dr. Burton's student in vet school 00:30:32.109 --> 00:30:34.390 and then became her lifelong best friend. Dr. 00:30:34.470 --> 00:30:36.009 Jamie asked if we could take this sweet kitty 00:30:36.009 --> 00:30:38.809 for her and she neutered him and kept him until 00:30:38.809 --> 00:30:42.839 we had an opening on transport. Queen wandered 00:30:42.839 --> 00:30:45.339 up to someone's house and their three dogs were 00:30:45.339 --> 00:30:48.559 being mean to her. This is from my mother. She 00:30:48.559 --> 00:30:50.680 says, a male cat has been hanging around the 00:30:50.680 --> 00:30:53.440 area too. He's also gray. So we are expecting 00:30:53.440 --> 00:30:55.819 gray kittens. We have no idea. We have no idea 00:30:55.819 --> 00:30:58.779 what these kittens are going to look like. But 00:30:58.779 --> 00:31:00.799 the homeowners said that their neighbor moved 00:31:00.799 --> 00:31:03.279 off and left all of his pets behind and they 00:31:03.279 --> 00:31:07.660 think this was one of his cats. Nerd is from 00:31:07.660 --> 00:31:10.819 the C letter of 2 from last transport. This is 00:31:10.819 --> 00:31:12.460 the same lady that we were supposed to take a 00:31:12.460 --> 00:31:14.200 pregnant cat from last year, but she couldn't 00:31:14.200 --> 00:31:15.940 get her hands on the cat the day of transport 00:31:15.940 --> 00:31:17.640 and then we ended up taking the kittens when 00:31:17.640 --> 00:31:19.400 she had them because the mama wasn't feeding 00:31:19.400 --> 00:31:21.759 them and we had to bottle feed them. All the 00:31:21.759 --> 00:31:24.420 cats belong at an abandoned house across the 00:31:24.420 --> 00:31:26.660 street, but they're basically hers at this point. 00:31:26.680 --> 00:31:28.859 She asked us to take this litter back before 00:31:28.859 --> 00:31:30.940 Thanksgiving, but we didn't have any room. Some 00:31:30.940 --> 00:31:32.960 of them are too skittish for her to even catch, 00:31:32.980 --> 00:31:35.319 so we're gonna work on catching those as soon 00:31:35.319 --> 00:31:37.819 as we have a foster spot. And we did. We caught 00:31:37.819 --> 00:31:40.720 this one just after transport left, but he has 00:31:40.720 --> 00:31:42.839 something wrong with his eye. Dr. Burton's gonna 00:31:42.839 --> 00:31:45.000 take a look at it and decide if it can be saved 00:31:45.000 --> 00:31:47.880 or if it needs to be removed. I'm thinking it 00:31:47.880 --> 00:31:51.829 needs to be removed. And my... Medical expertise 00:31:51.829 --> 00:31:55.690 They are litter for they were owner surrenders 00:31:55.690 --> 00:31:57.390 and they were supposed to go on last transport 00:31:57.390 --> 00:32:00.150 but when we got them a few of them were just 00:32:00.150 --> 00:32:04.809 way too snotty and Weezy, so we held them back 00:32:04.809 --> 00:32:06.809 and took them a little longer than Jessica thought 00:32:06.809 --> 00:32:09.970 it would to get them Well, but she said they 00:32:09.970 --> 00:32:11.829 have been the most well -behaved and sweetest 00:32:11.829 --> 00:32:14.369 kittens She said I never thought I was gonna 00:32:14.369 --> 00:32:17.750 miss four four to five month old kittens, but 00:32:17.750 --> 00:32:21.660 I will sure miss these Then the rest of the cats 00:32:21.660 --> 00:32:24.400 are from our Alabama shelter friends. If you 00:32:24.400 --> 00:32:27.480 listen to the rant at the beginning, I know what 00:32:27.480 --> 00:32:30.220 you're thinking, but I did save them a trip because 00:32:30.220 --> 00:32:33.400 I could fit all of their cats in my car. Mary 00:32:33.400 --> 00:32:35.440 Sue and I stopped and grabbed these on our way. 00:32:35.579 --> 00:32:39.220 I would not have been able to fit their 20 plus 00:32:39.220 --> 00:32:41.099 puppies and dogs that were scheduled to come 00:32:41.099 --> 00:32:44.160 though. We love our Alabama shelter friends, 00:32:44.200 --> 00:32:46.380 but because they're a shelter, they usually don't 00:32:46.380 --> 00:32:50.859 have a lot of information on their animals. Enchantress 00:32:50.859 --> 00:32:54.380 was brought in as a stray. Macheree was brought 00:32:54.380 --> 00:32:56.740 in as a stray. Hotshot was brought in as a stray. 00:32:57.480 --> 00:33:00.839 Partner fell out of a car engine and was brought 00:33:00.839 --> 00:33:05.079 into the shelter as a stray. Lovebug was turned 00:33:05.079 --> 00:33:07.740 in with an entire litter and a way older sibling. 00:33:07.880 --> 00:33:09.900 They were left behind by their owner that moved 00:33:09.900 --> 00:33:13.079 away. Everyone got adopted except for him and 00:33:13.079 --> 00:33:15.220 the big one. She didn't tell me who the big one 00:33:15.220 --> 00:33:18.690 was though, so I don't know. I don't know if 00:33:18.690 --> 00:33:21.710 the big one is in this in this group that I sent, 00:33:21.769 --> 00:33:23.410 but I'm going to try to figure out who the big 00:33:23.410 --> 00:33:25.750 one is. And if we don't have him, we'll put him 00:33:25.750 --> 00:33:30.170 on next transport. And then the J letter of two 00:33:30.170 --> 00:33:32.230 were found in a ditch when they were just barely 00:33:32.230 --> 00:33:36.190 weaned. They were so teeny tiny. But Lord have 00:33:36.190 --> 00:33:39.089 mercy. That is all the stories for this week. 00:33:39.259 --> 00:33:42.160 I hope, hopefully. Hopefully, there won't be 00:33:42.160 --> 00:33:44.220 any more updates. Hopefully, our driver in a 00:33:44.220 --> 00:33:46.339 sun may get back before the storm hits tonight. 00:33:46.680 --> 00:33:50.539 Hopefully, my van is fixed on Monday, and hopefully, 00:33:50.859 --> 00:33:53.720 hopefully, hopefully, we still get to do transport 00:33:53.720 --> 00:33:57.920 next week, like, scheduled. Thank you so, so, 00:33:58.019 --> 00:34:00.220 so, so much for fostering. Thank you for listening. 00:34:00.380 --> 00:34:04.039 You guys are truly saving lives. We absolutely 00:34:04.039 --> 00:34:05.799 could not have done any of this without you. 00:34:05.920 --> 00:34:10.119 Also, Claire, Claire, if you're listening, I 00:34:10.119 --> 00:34:12.820 am so sorry for not texting you back all week, 00:34:12.860 --> 00:34:14.920 literally. Claire has texted me, I think like 00:34:14.920 --> 00:34:17.500 three or four times, different days. It's like 00:34:17.500 --> 00:34:19.840 she could sense when I was in the middle of a 00:34:19.840 --> 00:34:22.659 disaster and like about to freak out and she 00:34:22.659 --> 00:34:25.539 would text me and I would be like, okay, I can't 00:34:25.539 --> 00:34:28.659 answer you right now. I read all of your texts, 00:34:28.659 --> 00:34:31.019 Claire, and I promise I will text you back soon. 00:34:31.139 --> 00:34:34.699 I'm so sorry. It's a Ruff life, but someone's 00:34:34.699 --> 00:34:35.400 got to do it.