WEBVTT 00:00:11.369 --> 00:00:16.170 Welcome to Ruff Life. Thankfully, not as rough 00:00:16.170 --> 00:00:19.989 of a life as it was last episode. If you missed 00:00:19.989 --> 00:00:21.769 that episode, make sure you go back and listen 00:00:21.769 --> 00:00:25.949 to it to understand the full scope of how stressful 00:00:25.949 --> 00:00:29.149 things have been down here. When we left off 00:00:29.149 --> 00:00:34.109 last week, it was quite the cliffhanger. My driver's 00:00:34.109 --> 00:00:36.990 son was on the way to pick up his dad and bring 00:00:36.990 --> 00:00:40.270 him home after he wrecked the transport van. 00:00:40.909 --> 00:00:44.030 and they were in such a huge time crunch because 00:00:44.030 --> 00:00:46.490 the winter storm was going to hit within minutes 00:00:46.490 --> 00:00:48.369 after they were supposed to make it back home. 00:00:48.750 --> 00:00:51.130 Thankfully they made it back with like literally 00:00:51.130 --> 00:00:54.369 45 minutes to spare three hours after they got 00:00:54.369 --> 00:00:57.070 back. Everything was completely iced over and 00:00:57.070 --> 00:01:00.490 no one could leave their homes. So my van was 00:01:00.490 --> 00:01:04.760 stuck at a body shop in Georgia. But first thing 00:01:04.760 --> 00:01:06.959 Monday morning, the shop owner called me, told 00:01:06.959 --> 00:01:08.859 me everything that was wrong with the van and 00:01:08.859 --> 00:01:11.180 promised me that he would have it back up and 00:01:11.180 --> 00:01:13.719 running by Thursday afternoon so that we could 00:01:13.719 --> 00:01:17.180 do transport as planned. And boy, did he deliver 00:01:17.180 --> 00:01:22.140 and boy, did it cost us. But I don't even care 00:01:22.140 --> 00:01:24.620 at this point because I'm just so thankful to 00:01:24.620 --> 00:01:27.500 have it back, to have it back in time and to 00:01:27.500 --> 00:01:31.040 have it drivable again. If you remember from 00:01:31.040 --> 00:01:34.500 last episode, I cut pretty much three -fourths 00:01:34.500 --> 00:01:37.319 of the animals that were supposed to be on that 00:01:37.319 --> 00:01:40.659 van so that I could swap them out and send all 00:01:40.659 --> 00:01:43.340 of my fosters that were in outdoor foster homes 00:01:43.340 --> 00:01:45.200 so that they wouldn't be here when the storm 00:01:45.200 --> 00:01:48.620 hit. The animals that got bumped to this week's 00:01:48.620 --> 00:01:51.000 transport were all at the Alabama shelter that 00:01:51.000 --> 00:01:53.620 we're partnered with, so they were sheltered 00:01:53.620 --> 00:01:57.099 and safe and totally fine. That meant that everyone 00:01:57.099 --> 00:01:59.680 that was left in my foster care down here was 00:01:59.680 --> 00:02:03.599 in an indoor foster home and presumably going 00:02:03.599 --> 00:02:07.700 to be unaffected by the storm. And that was very, 00:02:07.700 --> 00:02:12.199 very wrong for me to presume. They predicted 00:02:12.199 --> 00:02:15.680 this storm was going to be devastating and it 00:02:15.680 --> 00:02:18.419 was honestly worse than what they even thought 00:02:18.419 --> 00:02:22.009 it would be. It totally, completely missed Alabama. 00:02:22.110 --> 00:02:24.449 So I'm completely fine, which is a bummer because 00:02:24.449 --> 00:02:28.370 I was the best prepared for it and we didn't 00:02:28.370 --> 00:02:32.909 get anything. Jessica has no damage to her home 00:02:32.909 --> 00:02:34.889 or her property. So we're very thankful for that. 00:02:35.069 --> 00:02:37.129 At least she hasn't mentioned anything and she's 00:02:37.129 --> 00:02:39.270 whined a lot this week. So I'm sure it would 00:02:39.270 --> 00:02:43.629 have come up. However, she is still without power 00:02:43.629 --> 00:02:47.490 and she has no water either. So this is day six 00:02:47.490 --> 00:02:49.889 without power and i think it's day five it may 00:02:49.889 --> 00:02:53.789 even be day six too without water for her so 00:02:53.789 --> 00:02:58.729 she's not having a real fun time The dog house 00:02:58.729 --> 00:03:02.030 has no damage to the house itself. Remember, 00:03:02.069 --> 00:03:04.110 this is my home that I used to live in before 00:03:04.110 --> 00:03:07.150 I got married and moved to Alabama. Now we just 00:03:07.150 --> 00:03:09.889 use it as the Wolf Trap South headquarters and 00:03:09.889 --> 00:03:12.129 we foster animals out of it and do all of our 00:03:12.129 --> 00:03:14.909 transports there. So very thankful that there's 00:03:14.909 --> 00:03:19.879 no damage to the house. However... My six foot 00:03:19.879 --> 00:03:22.900 fence is like pretty much demolished. There are 00:03:22.900 --> 00:03:25.900 so many trees down. It's insane. It's going to 00:03:25.900 --> 00:03:28.919 be such a job getting it cleaned up and getting 00:03:28.919 --> 00:03:30.780 the fence repaired. I don't even know if it can 00:03:30.780 --> 00:03:34.159 be repaired. They may just replace it. And of 00:03:34.159 --> 00:03:36.479 course, everyone else is in the exact same boat. 00:03:36.939 --> 00:03:39.400 So waiting lists to get anything done are just 00:03:39.400 --> 00:03:43.900 so extreme right now. However, none of that compares 00:03:43.900 --> 00:03:48.800 to poor Mama Becky. Her town has had what they're 00:03:48.800 --> 00:03:55.939 calling a catastrophic event and their power 00:03:55.939 --> 00:04:01.090 company's substation somehow. lost connection. 00:04:01.289 --> 00:04:03.969 I don't know. Something happened. A catastrophic 00:04:03.969 --> 00:04:06.590 event happened at the power company's substation, 00:04:06.810 --> 00:04:09.270 not the place in town, something like that. So 00:04:09.270 --> 00:04:12.689 the entire town is completely without power. 00:04:12.830 --> 00:04:15.930 Not a single home building, hospital, anything 00:04:15.930 --> 00:04:19.230 had power until I think yesterday or maybe the 00:04:19.230 --> 00:04:22.389 day before they got power to the hospital and 00:04:22.389 --> 00:04:25.569 Walmart. I think. Anyways, they're estimating 00:04:25.569 --> 00:04:28.829 that it's going to be mid to end February before 00:04:28.829 --> 00:04:31.709 they have power again. Schools are already cancelled 00:04:31.709 --> 00:04:35.579 until February 8th at the minimum. driving through 00:04:35.579 --> 00:04:37.980 on my way to transport today was honestly like 00:04:37.980 --> 00:04:41.079 driving through a war zone. Literally millions, 00:04:41.279 --> 00:04:44.939 like actually millions of trees are down everywhere. 00:04:44.939 --> 00:04:48.319 You have to drive in ditches in some spots because 00:04:48.319 --> 00:04:50.879 there's so many trees and limbs on the road. 00:04:51.300 --> 00:04:54.899 There's power lines down everywhere and you just 00:04:54.899 --> 00:04:59.339 drive over them and hope for the best. They have 00:04:59.339 --> 00:05:03.220 most of the live wires labeled with tape like 00:05:03.220 --> 00:05:06.399 a caution live wire tape or something like that. 00:05:06.740 --> 00:05:09.920 They're hanging so low over the road in some 00:05:09.920 --> 00:05:13.779 spots though that only cars and small SUVs can 00:05:13.779 --> 00:05:16.500 drive under them. So like I made it in my car 00:05:16.500 --> 00:05:19.459 and my SUV but the van couldn't so the van had 00:05:19.459 --> 00:05:22.860 to go a different way. It's just it's so so shocking 00:05:22.860 --> 00:05:25.500 to go from my home where everything is fine and 00:05:25.500 --> 00:05:28.600 normal to what feels like just right down the 00:05:28.600 --> 00:05:31.139 road where all of my people are and everything 00:05:31.139 --> 00:05:35.420 is destroyed. Barns are leveled, homes are split 00:05:35.420 --> 00:05:38.160 in half by trees, cars are crushed, roads are 00:05:38.160 --> 00:05:40.279 impassable. It's just unbelievable. I think we're 00:05:40.279 --> 00:05:44.779 up to 19 storm related deaths already. One was 00:05:44.779 --> 00:05:49.180 like a six day old baby and they're expecting 00:05:49.180 --> 00:05:52.300 even more deaths over the weekend. because it's 00:05:52.300 --> 00:05:54.839 supposed to be so, so cold. It's just it's so 00:05:54.839 --> 00:05:58.339 awful. It's so, so awful. Oh, and my driver and 00:05:58.339 --> 00:06:00.759 I were talking about just how crazy all of this 00:06:00.759 --> 00:06:03.879 is right now. And where he lives, there's no 00:06:03.879 --> 00:06:06.240 cell service. There's a lot of areas like that 00:06:06.240 --> 00:06:08.459 down here where you're just so far out in the 00:06:08.459 --> 00:06:10.759 middle of nowhere that the cell phone towers 00:06:10.759 --> 00:06:13.600 don't reach. But it's not a big deal because 00:06:13.600 --> 00:06:16.139 everyone that lives out that way will have Wi 00:06:16.139 --> 00:06:19.079 -Fi. So as soon as you get home, your phone syncs 00:06:19.079 --> 00:06:21.660 to your Wi -Fi and then everything works just 00:06:21.660 --> 00:06:25.079 like normal. Well, my poor driver is currently 00:06:25.079 --> 00:06:29.060 without power, without water, and because his 00:06:29.060 --> 00:06:32.519 Wi -Fi is out because of no power, he has no 00:06:32.519 --> 00:06:35.240 cell reception either. Literally no power, no 00:06:35.240 --> 00:06:37.740 water, no phone. Talk about living off the grid. 00:06:38.220 --> 00:06:40.819 They do have a small portable generator though 00:06:40.819 --> 00:06:43.759 that they're using for heat, but like I feel 00:06:43.759 --> 00:06:47.639 like that's almost worse. what would you do if 00:06:47.639 --> 00:06:50.079 your house caught on fire? You can't even call 00:06:50.079 --> 00:06:52.839 anyone and you don't have any water to put it 00:06:52.839 --> 00:06:55.519 out yourself. It's just so, so scary. And now 00:06:55.519 --> 00:06:58.120 I understand even more why he was in such a hurry 00:06:58.120 --> 00:07:00.600 to get back home to his wife last week. Like, 00:07:00.600 --> 00:07:04.360 100 % I would not want to be iced in without 00:07:04.360 --> 00:07:08.040 my husband home alone with not even a cell phone 00:07:08.040 --> 00:07:11.839 that works. Like, ugh. But okay, so wait. Back 00:07:11.839 --> 00:07:15.089 to my main point though. All of my indoor fosters 00:07:15.089 --> 00:07:18.790 lost power as well, so not only did they have 00:07:18.790 --> 00:07:20.769 to shelter in place in the cold and the dark, 00:07:21.050 --> 00:07:23.529 but they had to do it with loud obnoxious puppies. 00:07:24.629 --> 00:07:27.430 Our bottle feeder foster who we love so dearly 00:07:27.430 --> 00:07:30.589 was not at all prepared for this storm. She's 00:07:30.589 --> 00:07:33.449 from up north and I don't, I don't think she 00:07:33.449 --> 00:07:36.970 realized how impactful winter weather is down 00:07:36.970 --> 00:07:39.189 here because like we just don't have the infrastructure 00:07:39.189 --> 00:07:43.209 like you do up north. Anyways, she was without 00:07:43.209 --> 00:07:46.370 power and water and was afraid that her puppies 00:07:46.370 --> 00:07:49.769 would actually literally freeze to death. Luckily 00:07:49.769 --> 00:07:52.810 someone close to her had a spare generator she 00:07:52.810 --> 00:07:56.350 could use to heat up one room, so she just moved 00:07:56.350 --> 00:07:58.649 everybody into that one room and they hunkered 00:07:58.649 --> 00:08:01.790 down. But anyways, believe it or not, things 00:08:01.790 --> 00:08:03.990 are actually better this week than they were 00:08:03.990 --> 00:08:08.670 last week. I was able to fit all of the Alabama 00:08:08.670 --> 00:08:11.129 shelter animals on this van so no one had to 00:08:11.129 --> 00:08:14.069 get held back again. And I was able to get all 00:08:14.069 --> 00:08:17.649 of my fosters who don't have powers animals on 00:08:17.649 --> 00:08:20.730 there too. So we're in good shape right now. 00:08:21.670 --> 00:08:24.470 It's been a very wild two weeks though, that's 00:08:24.470 --> 00:08:27.980 for sure. Let's get to the stories for this week 00:08:27.980 --> 00:08:31.319 though. The theme was snowplow names, A, because 00:08:31.319 --> 00:08:33.480 like what better time than to use these names 00:08:33.480 --> 00:08:36.919 than right now, and B, who even thought to name 00:08:36.919 --> 00:08:39.820 snowplows? That's so funny to me. So if you're 00:08:39.820 --> 00:08:42.320 like Jessica and you had no idea that this was 00:08:42.320 --> 00:08:45.669 even a thing, Yes, cities up north name their 00:08:45.669 --> 00:08:48.429 snow plows these super creative and hysterical 00:08:48.429 --> 00:08:51.750 names, and they even hold competitions for the 00:08:51.750 --> 00:08:55.330 best name every year. I could not stop giggling 00:08:55.330 --> 00:08:57.649 when I was compiling the list for this transport. 00:08:57.769 --> 00:09:00.610 Some of them are just so, so clever. I'm like, 00:09:00.610 --> 00:09:05.909 who even thought of this? Thaw enforcement was 00:09:05.909 --> 00:09:08.789 posted on Facebook for free. One of our fosters 00:09:08.789 --> 00:09:10.870 reached out and asked if she could go get it 00:09:10.870 --> 00:09:14.370 and foster it if we would take it. Leslie Snope 00:09:14.370 --> 00:09:18.309 was found on a back road posted for free on Facebook. 00:09:18.950 --> 00:09:20.970 Our rescue partner Tasha sent her daughter to 00:09:20.970 --> 00:09:24.309 go get her and I actually heard through the grapevine 00:09:24.309 --> 00:09:27.029 that Tasha had to pry her out of her daughter's 00:09:27.029 --> 00:09:29.590 arms this morning because she was not ready for 00:09:29.590 --> 00:09:33.730 her to leave yet. Yura Blizzard Harry is from 00:09:33.730 --> 00:09:36.950 our Alabama shelter friends. He was brought to 00:09:36.950 --> 00:09:40.769 the shelter as a stray. Kaplow is from our Alabama 00:09:40.769 --> 00:09:42.470 shelter friends. He was picked up on the side 00:09:42.470 --> 00:09:45.370 of the road. The O litter is from the Alabama 00:09:45.370 --> 00:09:47.970 shelter. Their mom was a stray who wandered up 00:09:47.970 --> 00:09:50.690 to someone's home and gave birth. The homeowner 00:09:50.690 --> 00:09:53.710 is keeping the mom. She rehomed two of the puppies 00:09:53.710 --> 00:09:56.429 and she surrendered these four puppies to the 00:09:56.429 --> 00:09:59.730 shelter. The P litter of six are from our Alabama 00:09:59.730 --> 00:10:02.350 shelter friends. They were seen being dumped 00:10:02.350 --> 00:10:04.210 on the side of a road and the person who saw 00:10:04.210 --> 00:10:06.210 it picked them up and took them to the shelter. 00:10:07.820 --> 00:10:10.740 Cleopatra and her six puppies. This is actually 00:10:10.740 --> 00:10:15.299 a mom and five puppies and her niece. There were 00:10:15.299 --> 00:10:18.139 two moms who were dumped at a super remote area 00:10:18.139 --> 00:10:21.080 of a state park right by my house. They were 00:10:21.080 --> 00:10:23.539 both pregnant and then they both gave birth at 00:10:23.539 --> 00:10:26.440 a campground months later. The shelter picked 00:10:26.440 --> 00:10:29.740 them all up and the other mom and a few of her 00:10:29.740 --> 00:10:33.230 puppies were taken by another rescue. This is 00:10:33.230 --> 00:10:36.669 in no way, this is not a dig on the Alabama shelter 00:10:36.669 --> 00:10:38.850 at all. They are absolutely desperate to move 00:10:38.850 --> 00:10:41.070 any and anything, any and everything that they 00:10:41.070 --> 00:10:44.870 can so that no one has to die, literally. But 00:10:44.870 --> 00:10:50.350 it is so ridiculous to me how many quote unquote 00:10:50.350 --> 00:10:55.389 rescues will only pull some of a litter. At least 00:10:55.389 --> 00:10:58.049 this one took the mom, too, because nine out 00:10:58.049 --> 00:10:59.909 of ten times. Actually, I would even say ten 00:10:59.909 --> 00:11:02.659 out of ten times they don't take the mom. but 00:11:02.659 --> 00:11:05.659 this mom was super stinking cute. Cleopatra is 00:11:05.659 --> 00:11:08.419 cute, but her sister was even cuter. But why 00:11:08.419 --> 00:11:12.179 leave one puppy behind? if i can't take a whole 00:11:12.179 --> 00:11:14.659 litter i don't take any of the litter and i know 00:11:14.659 --> 00:11:16.399 sometimes the shelter doesn't like that because 00:11:16.399 --> 00:11:19.080 they'd rather save one than save zero and i get 00:11:19.080 --> 00:11:22.519 it but i just cannot look at a whole kennel of 00:11:22.519 --> 00:11:25.639 puppies and say okay give me this half i'll make 00:11:25.639 --> 00:11:27.879 sure they have the best lives ever and are more 00:11:27.879 --> 00:11:30.299 loved than they ever thought possible but the 00:11:30.299 --> 00:11:32.960 other half has to stay it's fine with me if you 00:11:32.960 --> 00:11:35.059 put them to sleep or if you adopt them out to 00:11:35.059 --> 00:11:36.820 live on a chain for the rest of their lives i 00:11:36.820 --> 00:11:40.379 don't care like it's so terrible. And the rescues 00:11:40.379 --> 00:11:43.700 that do this will pull the cutest ones and leave 00:11:43.700 --> 00:11:46.759 the not as cute plain Jane ones behind, which 00:11:46.759 --> 00:11:49.120 hurts their chances even more of being adopted 00:11:49.120 --> 00:11:51.080 or another rescue pulling them because there's 00:11:51.080 --> 00:11:54.399 no quote unquote cute ones in the litter. But 00:11:54.399 --> 00:11:57.220 again, it doesn't make sense this time because 00:11:57.220 --> 00:12:00.179 all of these puppies were adorable and the one 00:12:00.179 --> 00:12:03.679 puppy that they left behind itself is super cute. 00:12:03.679 --> 00:12:06.000 So I don't know. I mean, I'm glad that they didn't 00:12:06.000 --> 00:12:09.809 take the knees or any of these, but I just don't 00:12:09.809 --> 00:12:13.789 get it, but I'm glad I got them. The A litter 00:12:13.789 --> 00:12:17.210 of six were dumped in a laundry basket in a man's 00:12:17.210 --> 00:12:19.450 yard who lives way way way out in the boonies. 00:12:19.509 --> 00:12:22.889 They were only about two to three weeks old and 00:12:22.889 --> 00:12:25.909 so our bottle feeder foster took them. They have 00:12:25.909 --> 00:12:28.769 survived the ice storm of 2026 with no power 00:12:28.769 --> 00:12:32.830 or water and had a very miserable week in our 00:12:32.830 --> 00:12:35.629 bottle feeder fosters home so they will very 00:12:35.629 --> 00:12:40.690 much enjoy your warm calm. homes. The Beelitter 00:12:40.690 --> 00:12:43.549 of Six are police chief's wife called animal 00:12:43.549 --> 00:12:46.129 control about some puppies that were in a friend's 00:12:46.129 --> 00:12:49.950 yard. We have a very strenuous relationship with 00:12:49.950 --> 00:12:52.850 the city and I wanted to tell them no out of 00:12:52.850 --> 00:12:55.629 spite when they asked for help, but in an effort 00:12:55.629 --> 00:12:57.809 to not burn bridges and because Jessica is a 00:12:57.809 --> 00:13:01.190 better person than I am, we usually always say 00:13:01.190 --> 00:13:04.970 yes when we can help. And it was just the day 00:13:04.970 --> 00:13:08.049 before the ice storm was about to hit, so freezing 00:13:08.049 --> 00:13:11.570 puppies trumps. politics so Jessica agreed to 00:13:11.570 --> 00:13:14.549 take them with no plan whatsoever but fortunately 00:13:14.549 --> 00:13:17.029 got two of our fosters to agree to help which 00:13:17.029 --> 00:13:19.230 was good because these puppies were way bigger 00:13:19.230 --> 00:13:21.470 than the picture that they originally sent us 00:13:21.470 --> 00:13:24.450 so that brings up the question how long had they 00:13:24.450 --> 00:13:26.529 been there and why are people so stupid to wait 00:13:26.529 --> 00:13:28.509 until the last possible minute to ask for help 00:13:28.509 --> 00:13:31.669 but anyways they were sent out in pairs to our 00:13:31.669 --> 00:13:35.090 fosters two were with Jess with no power or water 00:13:35.500 --> 00:13:37.919 Two were with a foster with no power but she 00:13:37.919 --> 00:13:40.460 did have water and then two were with another 00:13:40.460 --> 00:13:42.740 foster in another town who had power the whole 00:13:42.740 --> 00:13:44.879 time and had no idea that anything was even going 00:13:44.879 --> 00:13:48.000 on with their poor litter mates. So I'm sure 00:13:48.000 --> 00:13:50.679 they have lots of stories to share on this long 00:13:50.679 --> 00:13:54.519 road trip tonight being reunited. The F litter 00:13:54.519 --> 00:13:56.700 of five someone tagged our rescue partner Tasha 00:13:56.700 --> 00:13:59.820 on a Facebook post when she got to the location 00:13:59.820 --> 00:14:02.820 and realized it was the same spot where all in 00:14:02.820 --> 00:14:06.190 the family was sent on the January 3rd transport, 00:14:06.710 --> 00:14:10.009 she is fairly confident that these are litter 00:14:10.009 --> 00:14:15.110 mates to that puppy. Sabrina Carpenter, get it? 00:14:15.210 --> 00:14:18.909 Instead of carpenter, Carpenter. And her litter 00:14:18.909 --> 00:14:21.250 of eight puppies is actually a litter of seven 00:14:21.250 --> 00:14:23.929 puppies. So if you're the foster, don't freak 00:14:23.929 --> 00:14:25.690 out when you count them and there's only seven 00:14:25.690 --> 00:14:27.889 and think that you forgot one at the hospital. 00:14:28.830 --> 00:14:31.830 This family is from the hoarding situation that 00:14:31.830 --> 00:14:34.330 I mentioned in last week's episode. At the beginning 00:14:34.330 --> 00:14:36.509 of the year someone filed a complaint with animal 00:14:36.509 --> 00:14:39.529 control in a nearby town and claimed that there 00:14:39.529 --> 00:14:41.950 are always random stray dogs in their yard and 00:14:41.950 --> 00:14:45.529 they want something done about it. There's also 00:14:45.529 --> 00:14:48.429 a rumor going around that she called them because 00:14:48.429 --> 00:14:52.309 these dogs killed her dog, but that hasn't been 00:14:52.309 --> 00:14:54.590 verified so I don't know if that's true and after 00:14:54.590 --> 00:14:56.710 meeting these girls I just cannot believe that 00:14:56.759 --> 00:14:59.639 It would be true. But anyways, Animal Control 00:14:59.639 --> 00:15:01.879 followed up on the complaint and he went to the 00:15:01.879 --> 00:15:04.399 neighbor's house where so they lived further 00:15:04.399 --> 00:15:08.059 down way off the road. So they're neighbors, 00:15:08.059 --> 00:15:10.620 but they don't live close to each other. When 00:15:10.620 --> 00:15:13.039 Animal Control got there, he realized there were 00:15:13.039 --> 00:15:16.279 way more dogs than ever imagined and that the 00:15:16.279 --> 00:15:19.139 living conditions were so deplorable. He didn't 00:15:19.139 --> 00:15:21.419 even feel comfortable with dogs living there, 00:15:21.539 --> 00:15:25.519 let alone people. Come to find out, it is a husband 00:15:25.519 --> 00:15:29.169 and wife. or possibly a brother and a sister, 00:15:29.289 --> 00:15:32.269 no one knows for sure, who live on this property. 00:15:32.750 --> 00:15:37.129 The woman lives in a shed and the man lives inside 00:15:37.129 --> 00:15:41.289 on the bottom floor of the house. There have 00:15:41.289 --> 00:15:46.370 been almost 300 dogs removed from the property. 00:15:47.409 --> 00:15:53.409 300, 300. More than 100 of them were living inside 00:15:53.409 --> 00:15:56.370 the home. The homeowners told police that they 00:15:56.370 --> 00:15:59.690 had not even been to the upstairs of their home 00:15:59.690 --> 00:16:02.330 in more than three years, so they had no idea 00:16:02.330 --> 00:16:07.509 what or who was up there. There were several 00:16:07.509 --> 00:16:12.370 dozen rats that the people would feed like pets. 00:16:13.230 --> 00:16:17.190 Hear me when I say this. They were not pet rats. 00:16:17.289 --> 00:16:20.789 I am all for... people having pet rats. I think 00:16:20.789 --> 00:16:25.490 a pet rat is adorable. A random rat multiplied 00:16:25.490 --> 00:16:30.909 by dozens? Not adorable. There was also a horse. 00:16:32.309 --> 00:16:34.970 I don't know anything about the horse. I just 00:16:34.970 --> 00:16:37.570 know a horse was removed. I don't think the horse 00:16:37.570 --> 00:16:41.360 was in good condition though. Anyways, they were 00:16:41.360 --> 00:16:43.519 all just living in absolute squalor. None of 00:16:43.519 --> 00:16:46.440 these dogs were stolen though or like kept confined 00:16:46.440 --> 00:16:50.059 or abused in any way. The owners told police 00:16:50.059 --> 00:16:52.820 that a few dogs just wandered up a few years 00:16:52.820 --> 00:16:55.500 ago and had puppies and they couldn't find anyone 00:16:55.500 --> 00:16:57.200 to take the puppies and they couldn't afford 00:16:57.200 --> 00:17:01.779 to fix the dogs. So every six months every female 00:17:01.779 --> 00:17:05.519 would have a litter of puppies and it just snowballed 00:17:05.519 --> 00:17:08.059 out of control. I mean like the story of the 00:17:08.059 --> 00:17:11.720 South. But that also means that there's a pretty 00:17:11.720 --> 00:17:14.099 good possibility that these animals are inbred, 00:17:14.119 --> 00:17:17.599 which if we could test for it, I think the vast 00:17:17.599 --> 00:17:22.420 majority of strays in Mississippi are inbred. 00:17:22.480 --> 00:17:27.200 Hello, 1 % shall. But because there's like no 00:17:27.200 --> 00:17:29.779 malice in this case and none of the dogs were 00:17:29.779 --> 00:17:32.440 even starved or anything like that. No charges 00:17:32.440 --> 00:17:34.839 were pressed on the owners. They actually think 00:17:34.839 --> 00:17:36.779 that the owners might be a little inbred themselves. 00:17:36.779 --> 00:17:39.549 I think that's where the whole are they husband 00:17:39.549 --> 00:17:41.569 and wife or are they brother sister thinking 00:17:41.569 --> 00:17:45.069 from? Unfortunately because they were probably 00:17:45.069 --> 00:17:48.029 inbred and because some were feral and some were 00:17:48.029 --> 00:17:50.230 super old and honestly probably just because 00:17:50.230 --> 00:17:54.529 there were so so so many all at once, a lot of 00:17:54.529 --> 00:17:57.319 them have been euthanized already. I don't know 00:17:57.319 --> 00:17:59.380 the exact number and I doubt they'll ever tell 00:17:59.380 --> 00:18:02.279 us the exact number for sure but we do know for 00:18:02.279 --> 00:18:06.519 a fact that it is more than 60 because they reached 00:18:06.519 --> 00:18:10.400 out to Tasha to see if the funeral home that 00:18:10.400 --> 00:18:13.799 her husband owns would donate the cremation services 00:18:13.799 --> 00:18:16.079 for them and Tasha said that they would do 60 00:18:16.079 --> 00:18:20.200 dogs for them for free. I would bet it's a hundred 00:18:20.200 --> 00:18:22.619 or less though. I don't think it's more. I don't 00:18:22.619 --> 00:18:25.119 think it's any more than a hundred. They for 00:18:25.119 --> 00:18:28.599 sure took 179 dogs from the property and put 00:18:28.599 --> 00:18:32.420 them at a warehouse in the nearby town. This 00:18:32.420 --> 00:18:34.759 was like right before the storm hit just until 00:18:34.759 --> 00:18:37.559 they can find rescues to take them. Anyways, 00:18:37.660 --> 00:18:40.759 we pulled this mom who was pregnant and another 00:18:40.759 --> 00:18:43.460 mom who was pregnant as well as a young adult 00:18:43.460 --> 00:18:48.539 dog and a senior. The foster who is fostering 00:18:48.539 --> 00:18:50.400 the senior dog for me down here though wants 00:18:50.400 --> 00:18:54.460 to keep her and honestly, she's so old This is 00:18:54.460 --> 00:18:56.859 one instance where I really don't care if someone 00:18:56.859 --> 00:18:59.619 in the south wants to foster fail. I will allow 00:18:59.619 --> 00:19:04.279 it this time But when this mama and her puppies 00:19:04.279 --> 00:19:07.000 got to transport today, we noticed that the runt 00:19:07.000 --> 00:19:10.700 puppy was significantly smaller and weaker than 00:19:10.700 --> 00:19:12.799 the rest of the puppies, which really wouldn't 00:19:12.799 --> 00:19:15.460 be that concerning if they weren't about to load 00:19:15.460 --> 00:19:19.440 up and go for a 14 -hour car ride where no one 00:19:19.440 --> 00:19:21.470 will be able to... you know, make sure the runt 00:19:21.470 --> 00:19:24.089 is latching enough and staying warm and not getting 00:19:24.089 --> 00:19:28.289 smushed. So since Tasha is currently fostering 00:19:28.289 --> 00:19:31.529 the sister mama and her newborn puppies that 00:19:31.529 --> 00:19:34.789 are just a day younger than this litter, she 00:19:34.789 --> 00:19:36.849 went ahead and took the runt back home with her 00:19:36.849 --> 00:19:39.430 to put in with her mama just to keep an eye on 00:19:39.430 --> 00:19:41.109 it a little bit longer and let it get a little 00:19:41.109 --> 00:19:43.930 bit stronger before the next transport and maybe 00:19:43.930 --> 00:19:47.400 even bottle feed it if it comes down to it. But 00:19:47.400 --> 00:19:50.440 fading puppy syndrome is a big concern right 00:19:50.440 --> 00:19:53.920 now and I am really really really really hoping 00:19:53.920 --> 00:19:57.319 that it's gonna pull through. That's actually 00:19:57.319 --> 00:19:59.960 all the stories for this week. There are no cats 00:19:59.960 --> 00:20:02.440 on this van because I needed all the space possible 00:20:02.440 --> 00:20:04.900 to get my puppies out of their dark and cold 00:20:04.900 --> 00:20:07.920 foster homes. And right now all of our cats that 00:20:07.920 --> 00:20:10.500 we've been asked to pull are at the Alabama shelter 00:20:10.500 --> 00:20:13.799 and they're safe and sound. Hopefully next episode 00:20:13.799 --> 00:20:16.819 will be a lot lighter and brighter and if you're 00:20:16.819 --> 00:20:20.920 lucky maybe even shorter. Thank you for listening 00:20:20.920 --> 00:20:23.680 and thank you so so so so much to everyone who 00:20:23.680 --> 00:20:27.420 sent us food. Our stash had gotten scary low 00:20:27.420 --> 00:20:30.400 and we are apparently in some sort of like mini 00:20:30.400 --> 00:20:34.440 puppy season boom. So we feel much better knowing 00:20:34.440 --> 00:20:36.539 that we have plenty of food to give out to anyone 00:20:36.539 --> 00:20:40.059 who needs it right now. Y 'all are amazing. We 00:20:40.059 --> 00:20:43.440 could not do any of this without you. It's a 00:20:43.440 --> 00:20:45.579 ruff life, but someone's gotta do it.