WEBVTT 00:00:09.929 --> 00:00:13.830 Welcome to Ruff Life. We have had yet another 00:00:13.830 --> 00:00:17.250 crazy week down here. So many puppies that were 00:00:17.250 --> 00:00:21.170 scheduled to be on this transport got horribly 00:00:21.170 --> 00:00:25.609 sick. We had one litter being distemper tested 00:00:25.609 --> 00:00:28.050 because they were so sick. Thankfully it's negative 00:00:28.050 --> 00:00:32.210 and thankfully they are doing better now. um 00:00:32.210 --> 00:00:34.250 but they got cut from transport and then we had 00:00:34.250 --> 00:00:37.229 another litter that broke with parvo and all 00:00:37.229 --> 00:00:40.609 but one died less than 24 hours after testing 00:00:40.609 --> 00:00:43.869 positive and that one is still just barely hanging 00:00:43.869 --> 00:00:48.630 on so that's been awful and then my single my 00:00:48.630 --> 00:00:53.130 foster my little teacup yorkie came down with 00:00:53.130 --> 00:00:56.729 kennel cough from her week at the shelter so 00:00:56.729 --> 00:00:59.689 she has been so sick and so pitiful it has just 00:00:59.689 --> 00:01:06.060 been a Very stressful, very expensive week. But 00:01:06.060 --> 00:01:09.700 all of those cancellations or sicknesses made 00:01:09.700 --> 00:01:12.980 room for the C litter of six and the K litter 00:01:12.980 --> 00:01:16.060 of three, so if you're fostering either of those 00:01:16.060 --> 00:01:20.200 litters, thank you for your flexibility changing 00:01:20.200 --> 00:01:23.659 fosters or for signing up on such short notice 00:01:23.659 --> 00:01:26.379 when we made a plea for more people because we 00:01:26.379 --> 00:01:29.540 were about to have to cut puppies. Y 'all are 00:01:29.540 --> 00:01:34.200 incredible always. In ice storm news, all of 00:01:34.200 --> 00:01:36.400 our people have power back. Very, very thankful 00:01:36.400 --> 00:01:39.140 for that. The doghouse yard has been cleaned 00:01:39.140 --> 00:01:41.719 up from all the fallen trees, but the fence is 00:01:41.719 --> 00:01:45.299 still damaged so no big dogs can be fostered 00:01:45.299 --> 00:01:48.079 there right now, only animals that just stay 00:01:48.079 --> 00:01:51.909 inside the house. No internet yet at anyone's 00:01:51.909 --> 00:01:54.730 houses, so I'm hoping we get that back soon because 00:01:54.730 --> 00:01:57.269 I like to watch the nanny cameras at the doghouse. 00:01:57.730 --> 00:02:01.590 We passed about 30 to 40 linemen just on our 00:02:01.590 --> 00:02:03.769 way into Mississippi today who are all working 00:02:03.769 --> 00:02:07.290 on getting power back in other areas. I cannot 00:02:07.290 --> 00:02:09.810 even imagine being without power that long. They're 00:02:09.810 --> 00:02:12.590 going on like 15 or more days for some people. 00:02:13.030 --> 00:02:15.830 And then those poor linemen who are working literally 00:02:15.830 --> 00:02:20.689 24 -7 non -stop. Winters down here are so rough. 00:02:21.990 --> 00:02:25.409 Anyways, let's get into the story. There were 00:02:25.409 --> 00:02:29.889 51 animals on board today, 13 adults between 00:02:29.889 --> 00:02:33.250 the dogs and the cats. So, you know, I love that. 00:02:33.449 --> 00:02:37.210 The theme is Mardi Gras and our lovely Ariel 00:02:37.210 --> 00:02:39.330 did all the names for me this week. Love her 00:02:39.330 --> 00:02:42.050 so much. Every time I talk to her, she teaches 00:02:42.050 --> 00:02:47.669 me a new cool hip slang phrase to say. And so 00:02:47.669 --> 00:02:50.229 for a while, my word was queen because she taught 00:02:50.229 --> 00:02:53.550 me that. um but a few weeks ago she taught me 00:02:53.550 --> 00:02:56.810 slayed she said i slayed the the names for the 00:02:56.810 --> 00:03:00.990 snowplow transport so as ariel would say she 00:03:00.990 --> 00:03:04.669 slayed these names but it's so funny though because 00:03:04.669 --> 00:03:09.930 my phone used to autocorrect spade to slayed 00:03:09.930 --> 00:03:12.349 every time so I would be texting someone and 00:03:12.349 --> 00:03:15.110 I'd be like oh yeah we slayed that dog for them 00:03:15.110 --> 00:03:18.069 and then I'd have to be like oh no no no no no 00:03:18.069 --> 00:03:20.770 not slayed we spayed we spayed the dog for them 00:03:20.770 --> 00:03:24.349 but now that I have typed spayed no less than 00:03:24.349 --> 00:03:27.569 one million times and never once typed slayed 00:03:27.569 --> 00:03:33.250 on purpose um when I when I typed out slayed 00:03:33.250 --> 00:03:37.020 just now I changed it to spade so my phone put 00:03:37.020 --> 00:03:40.479 she spade these names when I was typing it out. 00:03:40.680 --> 00:03:45.539 But anyways, Gumbo is our last dog from the hoarding 00:03:45.539 --> 00:03:48.360 situation that we were helping with. We pulled 00:03:48.360 --> 00:03:52.400 four adult dogs total. One was 100 years old 00:03:52.400 --> 00:03:55.020 and her foster down here just fell in love with 00:03:55.020 --> 00:03:57.620 her, wanted to keep her, so we made an exception 00:03:57.620 --> 00:04:01.120 to the no local adoptions rule that I have and 00:04:01.120 --> 00:04:04.180 we let her keep that one. Two were pregnant and 00:04:04.180 --> 00:04:07.199 they had 16 puppies between their two litters. 00:04:07.280 --> 00:04:11.319 They are all already in Virginia. And now our 00:04:11.319 --> 00:04:14.240 sweet precious gumbo who we called Sydney down 00:04:14.240 --> 00:04:17.259 here is finally getting her freedom ride. If 00:04:17.259 --> 00:04:21.160 you want the more in -depth version of the hoarding 00:04:21.160 --> 00:04:24.240 case and the home that she came from, check out 00:04:24.240 --> 00:04:27.680 the January 30th snowplow episode because I go 00:04:27.680 --> 00:04:31.819 really detailed on that. But for her specifically, 00:04:31.819 --> 00:04:35.360 she was part of a group of 20 dogs that were 00:04:35.360 --> 00:04:39.279 taken from that home and placed in a holding 00:04:39.279 --> 00:04:44.579 area at a nearby closed down dog pound. So all 00:04:44.579 --> 00:04:47.759 of the outdoor kennels were still up at this 00:04:47.759 --> 00:04:50.339 animal shelter that has closed down and so they 00:04:50.339 --> 00:04:52.819 offered it to be used as kind of like a triage 00:04:52.819 --> 00:04:56.560 area. It's actually the pound that our rescue 00:04:56.560 --> 00:05:00.500 partner Tasha used to voluntarily and voluntarily 00:05:00.500 --> 00:05:04.300 run, but after she stepped down they just closed 00:05:04.300 --> 00:05:06.720 it up completely. but when they were bringing 00:05:06.720 --> 00:05:08.639 all these dogs there she went by to help out 00:05:08.639 --> 00:05:10.779 and get them all situated and I told her you 00:05:10.779 --> 00:05:13.699 know like use your judgment we'll commit to pulling 00:05:13.699 --> 00:05:15.660 a couple of these dogs if you just feel like 00:05:15.660 --> 00:05:18.339 there's some that are tugging on your heartstrings 00:05:18.339 --> 00:05:22.939 and she said when she was unloading them as soon 00:05:22.939 --> 00:05:25.339 as she saw this one she knew she had to pull 00:05:25.339 --> 00:05:28.779 her because she was so tiny and shaking in the 00:05:28.779 --> 00:05:32.420 corner of her cage looking so scared so she went 00:05:32.420 --> 00:05:37.730 home with Tasha that night. Orpheus, we got a 00:05:37.730 --> 00:05:40.350 call about a dog whose owner had died. The neighbors 00:05:40.350 --> 00:05:43.110 had been feeding him. His name was Jesse. He's 00:05:43.110 --> 00:05:46.629 a big guy. They also had a stray that had shown 00:05:46.629 --> 00:05:48.689 up earlier in the week and he was bullying him 00:05:48.689 --> 00:05:51.029 and not letting him eat. Jessica went out there 00:05:51.029 --> 00:05:52.790 to see him, guessing that the stray would be 00:05:52.790 --> 00:05:55.670 just a big old mean pit bull mix that she would 00:05:55.670 --> 00:05:59.250 have to run off. Instead, it was a little 20 00:05:59.250 --> 00:06:02.269 -pound guy playing with Jesse. So, apparently 00:06:02.269 --> 00:06:04.129 the little guy was just really hungry when he 00:06:04.129 --> 00:06:07.980 showed up and Was not letting Jesse eat and he 00:06:07.980 --> 00:06:10.040 was eating all of his food, but they were getting 00:06:10.040 --> 00:06:14.879 along fine and We ended up sending we took them 00:06:14.879 --> 00:06:18.139 both obviously We sent the little one to the 00:06:18.139 --> 00:06:21.839 doghouse and then we sent Orpheus to doggie daycare 00:06:21.839 --> 00:06:24.439 a few days later after getting neutered and he 00:06:24.439 --> 00:06:27.319 did great there They all said he is a great dog 00:06:27.319 --> 00:06:32.990 and he's very easy to deal with Zulu, a man that 00:06:32.990 --> 00:06:35.310 owns a car dealership right off the highway, 00:06:35.430 --> 00:06:37.930 the four lane highway in a town next to ours, 00:06:38.550 --> 00:06:41.110 ends up feeding a lot of the strays and this 00:06:41.110 --> 00:06:44.329 puppy wandered up right before our huge ice storm 00:06:44.329 --> 00:06:47.540 hit. This guy was like, don't worry, like I'll 00:06:47.540 --> 00:06:49.579 keep him inside in my office bathroom during 00:06:49.579 --> 00:06:51.459 the cold days and I'll leave enough food, you 00:06:51.459 --> 00:06:54.560 know, so like if I'm iced in, he'll be OK. But 00:06:54.560 --> 00:06:56.160 we were like, no, no, no, we'll get him into 00:06:56.160 --> 00:06:58.899 one of our foster homes. So we sent him with 00:06:58.899 --> 00:07:01.500 one of our fosters the day before the ice storm 00:07:01.500 --> 00:07:05.500 hit. Well, the joke was on us because that family, 00:07:05.540 --> 00:07:09.720 the foster family lost power and water for a 00:07:09.720 --> 00:07:12.500 week and the car lot where he would have been 00:07:12.500 --> 00:07:16.360 was totally fine. So he had a really rough week, 00:07:16.360 --> 00:07:20.560 but he made it. The L litter of two showed up 00:07:20.560 --> 00:07:22.899 as strays right before the ice storm. We were 00:07:22.899 --> 00:07:25.639 making plans to take them and we asked if they 00:07:25.639 --> 00:07:29.000 could bring them the Friday before the ice storm 00:07:29.000 --> 00:07:32.439 started. So the ice storm start... Started on 00:07:32.439 --> 00:07:35.339 Saturday. She said she didn't want to get out 00:07:35.339 --> 00:07:39.939 on Friday because it was supposed to snow tomorrow 00:07:39.939 --> 00:07:43.980 So she said instead she would wait and bring 00:07:43.980 --> 00:07:47.699 them the following Monday When we knew we were 00:07:47.699 --> 00:07:50.000 all gonna be iced in and no one was gonna be 00:07:50.000 --> 00:07:51.639 able to travel on the road So we were like whatever 00:07:51.639 --> 00:07:55.709 just bring them whenever you want. So a week 00:07:55.709 --> 00:07:58.470 later she texts that she can finally get out 00:07:58.470 --> 00:08:00.870 of her driveway and she can bring them now, but 00:08:00.870 --> 00:08:04.850 by then all of our foster's had filled up. Fortunately 00:08:04.850 --> 00:08:07.490 she agreed to hang on to them until just this 00:08:07.490 --> 00:08:10.269 past week when the last transport left and we 00:08:10.269 --> 00:08:14.170 were able to free up some space. The K letter 00:08:14.170 --> 00:08:18.810 of three, we got an email with nothing in the 00:08:18.810 --> 00:08:22.910 body of the email. The subject line was just 00:08:22.910 --> 00:08:27.230 one long run -on sentence that says, I have three 00:08:27.230 --> 00:08:28.949 puppies I have to get rid of today. They will 00:08:28.949 --> 00:08:30.970 end up dead if I don't find somewhere for them 00:08:30.970 --> 00:08:35.649 to go today. So Jessica emails her back. I wasn't 00:08:35.649 --> 00:08:37.350 even going to email her back, but Jessica's a 00:08:37.350 --> 00:08:39.250 better person than me. Jessica emails her back 00:08:39.250 --> 00:08:43.110 and is like, OK, well, we can't do anything immediately, 00:08:43.110 --> 00:08:46.149 but like send us pictures, tell us a little bit 00:08:46.149 --> 00:08:48.129 about them. We'll get them on our waiting list. 00:08:48.190 --> 00:08:50.269 We'll get to them as soon as we can. So then 00:08:50.269 --> 00:08:52.429 all of a sudden, this lady has plenty of time. 00:08:52.470 --> 00:08:54.850 She just wants to know how long it'll be. No 00:08:54.850 --> 00:08:58.370 rush. So Jessica took her food and a dog pen 00:08:58.370 --> 00:09:01.740 to contain them because the neighbors and. by 00:09:01.740 --> 00:09:04.960 neighbors. It was just three trailers lined up 00:09:04.960 --> 00:09:07.740 on an acre of land. They were getting irritated 00:09:07.740 --> 00:09:10.720 with the puppies. So we started making plans 00:09:10.720 --> 00:09:13.559 to get them soon before the rain started this 00:09:13.559 --> 00:09:15.440 coming weekend because they didn't have a good 00:09:15.440 --> 00:09:17.879 place to stay where they would stay dry. But 00:09:17.879 --> 00:09:20.820 because so many of our animals got sick, they 00:09:20.820 --> 00:09:23.039 were able to make it on transport instead of 00:09:23.039 --> 00:09:26.179 having to go to a foster. and it turns out that 00:09:26.179 --> 00:09:29.399 these puppies weren't dumped and she just suddenly 00:09:29.399 --> 00:09:31.980 had to find a place for them. They belonged to 00:09:31.980 --> 00:09:35.879 her dog who was on a chain in the backyard. She 00:09:35.879 --> 00:09:38.299 did not want to surrender the mom and we can't 00:09:38.299 --> 00:09:41.000 make her surrender the mom, but she did agree 00:09:41.000 --> 00:09:45.970 to get her spade using one of our vouchers. The 00:09:45.970 --> 00:09:48.289 R litter of four, these were picked up on the 00:09:48.289 --> 00:09:50.529 side of the road. They were super skinny and 00:09:50.529 --> 00:09:54.009 so hungry. One of them, the male, could barely 00:09:54.009 --> 00:09:56.629 walk when they first found them. By the time 00:09:56.629 --> 00:09:59.250 we found out about them, he was getting around 00:09:59.250 --> 00:10:01.409 a lot better. but we went ahead and sent him 00:10:01.409 --> 00:10:03.389 to the vet anyways just to see what was going 00:10:03.389 --> 00:10:06.730 on. The vet did an x -ray and found that his 00:10:06.730 --> 00:10:09.470 leg had been broken either by being hit by a 00:10:09.470 --> 00:10:12.950 car or by being thrown out of a car. It's healed 00:10:12.950 --> 00:10:15.309 back about as perfectly as it could though and 00:10:15.309 --> 00:10:17.409 he was very impressed by that and said we really 00:10:17.409 --> 00:10:19.769 don't need to do anything for him at all and 00:10:19.769 --> 00:10:23.389 it's just going to keep getting better. The end 00:10:23.389 --> 00:10:26.830 letter of two. So Tasha got a call that someone 00:10:26.830 --> 00:10:29.850 had seen two puppies three minutes away from 00:10:29.850 --> 00:10:32.769 Tasha's house on a super busy four -lane highway 00:10:32.769 --> 00:10:36.049 So she takes off driving all around finally finds 00:10:36.049 --> 00:10:39.110 them and they're on the side of the highway eating 00:10:39.110 --> 00:10:43.470 a dead deer and We know that they were eating 00:10:43.470 --> 00:10:47.110 the dead deer because they got car sick and Tasha's 00:10:47.110 --> 00:10:51.179 car and they threw up deer guts all over her 00:10:51.179 --> 00:10:55.580 back seat. And you know, you know how we have 00:10:55.580 --> 00:10:57.879 litter names for everyone down here that we call 00:10:57.879 --> 00:11:00.600 them before they get their actual wolf trap names? 00:11:01.259 --> 00:11:04.320 Like the laundry basket litter that was found 00:11:04.320 --> 00:11:08.259 in a laundry basket. So these guys are fondly 00:11:08.259 --> 00:11:14.519 referred to as the deer guts litter. The M letter 00:11:14.519 --> 00:11:18.080 of seven are owner surrenders, the mom who actually 00:11:18.080 --> 00:11:20.259 looks to me like a standard poodle. Maybe she's 00:11:20.259 --> 00:11:22.940 just a doodle mix though, I don't know. But she 00:11:22.940 --> 00:11:25.759 wandered up to someone's yard and they never 00:11:25.759 --> 00:11:28.720 found the owner so they just kept her. She ended 00:11:28.720 --> 00:11:31.159 up being pregnant and then had the puppies the 00:11:31.159 --> 00:11:33.960 day after Christmas. They reached out to their 00:11:33.960 --> 00:11:36.419 vet to see what to do about rehoming the puppies 00:11:36.419 --> 00:11:39.679 and their vet just happens to be the one and 00:11:39.679 --> 00:11:42.419 only Dr. Jamie. If you didn't know, Dr. Jamie 00:11:42.419 --> 00:11:45.759 was one of Dr. Burton's students in vet school 00:11:45.759 --> 00:11:48.320 down here at Mississippi State and they turned 00:11:48.320 --> 00:11:51.679 into lifelong best friends. Dr. Jamie gave them 00:11:51.679 --> 00:11:53.539 my number and they reached out to me when the 00:11:53.539 --> 00:11:55.580 puppies were only about three weeks old at the 00:11:55.580 --> 00:11:58.080 time so I gave them the whole spiel about surrendering 00:11:58.080 --> 00:12:01.960 the whole litter of nine. Nine to get the spay 00:12:01.960 --> 00:12:04.700 voucher for the mom. They said absolutely I asked 00:12:04.700 --> 00:12:06.639 them if they needed me to find fosters for them 00:12:06.639 --> 00:12:08.919 before After they were weaned before they would 00:12:08.919 --> 00:12:10.480 leave on transport and they were like, no, no, 00:12:10.480 --> 00:12:12.980 no We want to keep them until the day that they 00:12:12.980 --> 00:12:16.820 leave on transport Well, they actually live right 00:12:16.820 --> 00:12:20.720 by Tasha who actually lives 90 minutes away from 00:12:20.720 --> 00:12:23.480 me So a few weeks later I passed them off to 00:12:23.480 --> 00:12:25.919 Tasha to get with the owner about vaccinating 00:12:25.919 --> 00:12:28.240 them and giving them any supplies that they might 00:12:28.240 --> 00:12:32.000 need and he tells Dasha he actually needs them 00:12:32.000 --> 00:12:34.179 gone as soon as possible because he has three 00:12:34.179 --> 00:12:36.559 other dogs that he has to take care of and Dasha 00:12:36.559 --> 00:12:41.860 was like okay well I have 26 so I think you and 00:12:41.860 --> 00:12:44.500 your three will be fine for a few more days until 00:12:44.500 --> 00:12:47.340 our fosters leave on their scheduled transport 00:12:47.340 --> 00:12:50.519 and then we have a spot open up for years. So 00:12:50.519 --> 00:12:52.419 two days later she goes to meet the guy to get 00:12:52.419 --> 00:12:55.120 the puppies and he tells her it's actually only 00:12:55.120 --> 00:12:58.990 seven puppies because he gave two away. and one 00:12:58.990 --> 00:13:01.850 of them was the chocolate one. It was so cute. 00:13:02.789 --> 00:13:05.009 So annoying. He did not get his spay voucher 00:13:05.009 --> 00:13:10.049 but oh well. The bee litter and her eight bee 00:13:10.049 --> 00:13:13.490 puppies were posted for free on a Facebook page 00:13:13.490 --> 00:13:18.129 that our rescue partner Tasha manages. So before 00:13:18.129 --> 00:13:20.909 she even approved it to be posted on the page 00:13:20.909 --> 00:13:23.269 she called me to see if we could take them and 00:13:23.269 --> 00:13:27.419 I was like duh. um they actually said in the 00:13:27.419 --> 00:13:30.200 post that they were going to keep the mom but 00:13:30.200 --> 00:13:32.240 when we asked them if they needed a spay voucher 00:13:32.240 --> 00:13:35.320 for her they said no we're not keeping her she's 00:13:35.320 --> 00:13:38.019 on a wait list to go to the local shelter whenever 00:13:38.019 --> 00:13:41.460 they get room the kill shelter um but she was 00:13:41.460 --> 00:13:43.759 on the list before she even got pregnant and 00:13:43.759 --> 00:13:45.919 delivered puppies and weaned the puppies so i 00:13:45.919 --> 00:13:48.460 was like okay well if you're just keeping her 00:13:48.460 --> 00:13:51.559 if you're just gonna keep keeping her until the 00:13:51.559 --> 00:13:53.620 shelter can take her just let me have her which 00:13:53.620 --> 00:13:57.120 they were more than happy to do. The C letter 00:13:57.120 --> 00:14:00.879 of six were posted on Facebook as free to a good 00:14:00.879 --> 00:14:05.220 home. Another local rescuer here in Alabama got 00:14:05.220 --> 00:14:08.080 them. I've never actually worked with her before, 00:14:08.080 --> 00:14:11.960 but I've heard of her often. She mainly helps 00:14:11.960 --> 00:14:15.080 at a different shelter than the one I help out 00:14:15.080 --> 00:14:19.019 at in a different town. but she called her shelter 00:14:19.019 --> 00:14:22.200 and asked them to call my shelter that I help 00:14:22.200 --> 00:14:24.759 at to see if I would be willing to take these 00:14:24.759 --> 00:14:27.659 puppies because all of her rescues were full. 00:14:28.299 --> 00:14:31.100 And then I guess to make sure that I would say 00:14:31.100 --> 00:14:34.860 yes, she said she would also throw in a four 00:14:34.860 --> 00:14:39.159 month old Yorkie something mix. And I told my 00:14:39.159 --> 00:14:41.240 shelter people I will absolutely take these. 00:14:41.340 --> 00:14:45.100 adorable tiny small breed litter any day of the 00:14:45.100 --> 00:14:47.559 week and they were like well she just wanted 00:14:47.559 --> 00:14:49.659 to sweeten the deal and I was like okay well 00:14:49.659 --> 00:14:53.240 no take backs because a deal's a deal but you 00:14:53.240 --> 00:14:55.500 should tell her next time save your four -month 00:14:55.500 --> 00:14:58.960 -old Yorkie mix for a litter of six one -year 00:14:58.960 --> 00:15:02.419 -old black pit mixes instead of these adorable 00:15:02.419 --> 00:15:05.019 puppies that I would have taken anyways happily. 00:15:06.909 --> 00:15:09.649 but anyways the Yorkie mix is coming next transport 00:15:09.649 --> 00:15:14.950 so get your bespoke apps in now. As for the kitties 00:15:14.950 --> 00:15:17.809 we have a lot of cats on board this week which 00:15:17.809 --> 00:15:20.750 is fantastic and I'm so happy but all except 00:15:20.750 --> 00:15:24.129 for one is from our Alabama shelter friends which 00:15:24.129 --> 00:15:29.240 means no stories really. Um, but Dacry is from 00:15:29.240 --> 00:15:56.820 Jess. This is what she said about him. my daughter 00:15:56.820 --> 00:15:59.659 -in -law started befriending the cat. They call 00:15:59.659 --> 00:16:02.100 him Orange Cat, which is a terrible name for 00:16:02.100 --> 00:16:07.080 him. I call him Wally. During the year that they 00:16:07.080 --> 00:16:10.000 lived there, he became very very friendly. He 00:16:10.000 --> 00:16:12.759 still roamed a lot and he missed several of his 00:16:12.759 --> 00:16:15.090 neuter appointments because he was roaming. But 00:16:15.090 --> 00:16:18.210 when Ellie and Caleb, her son and daughter -in 00:16:18.210 --> 00:16:20.750 -law, moved, Orange Cat disappeared for a couple 00:16:20.750 --> 00:16:23.690 weeks. He showed back on Jess's porch one day 00:16:23.690 --> 00:16:26.850 with a huge gash down the side of his face. The 00:16:26.850 --> 00:16:30.049 vet said it was an abscess probably from a cat 00:16:30.049 --> 00:16:32.570 fight. So they got him fixed up. They got him 00:16:32.570 --> 00:16:35.570 snipped up. And then he spent a week inside at 00:16:35.570 --> 00:16:38.250 the doghouse until he got his drain tubes taken 00:16:38.250 --> 00:16:42.049 out. During that time, any doubts he had about 00:16:42.049 --> 00:16:45.509 laps and cuddles and people were officially gone. 00:16:46.210 --> 00:16:49.570 When Jess brought him back to her house, he declared 00:16:49.570 --> 00:16:52.769 her front porch as his home. And that's when 00:16:52.769 --> 00:16:55.990 we discovered how terrified he is of other animals, 00:16:56.450 --> 00:16:59.850 especially dogs. He went a little postal and 00:16:59.850 --> 00:17:03.210 then eventually made Jess's dogs afraid to go 00:17:03.210 --> 00:17:07.599 out. their own front door. So she set him up 00:17:07.599 --> 00:17:10.660 a place on the porch down at the dog trailer 00:17:10.660 --> 00:17:13.660 where she fosters and he's been pretty happy 00:17:13.660 --> 00:17:16.359 there. He even calmed down a little when Justice's 00:17:16.359 --> 00:17:19.039 dogs are close by but he'll probably still run 00:17:19.039 --> 00:17:22.240 them off the porch if he needs to. um when he's 00:17:22.240 --> 00:17:24.339 been off roaming for a couple days and he comes 00:17:24.339 --> 00:17:27.380 back to an empty food bowl he'll go up to jess's 00:17:27.380 --> 00:17:30.039 house and wait at the door for her and then go 00:17:30.039 --> 00:17:32.680 straight to her jeep and waits for her to open 00:17:32.680 --> 00:17:35.839 her car door and then they drive down to the 00:17:35.839 --> 00:17:39.009 trailer and she feeds him he loves to sit in 00:17:39.009 --> 00:17:42.150 your lap and he purrs so hard. He is going to 00:17:42.150 --> 00:17:45.609 love having more attention. Side note, the places 00:17:45.609 --> 00:17:48.329 where he had the tubes on the side of his face 00:17:48.329 --> 00:17:50.990 and his neck took forever to heal. They just 00:17:50.990 --> 00:17:54.089 in the last week have had the scabs come off 00:17:54.089 --> 00:17:57.309 without reforming again. He's probably the biggest 00:17:57.309 --> 00:18:00.170 cat I've ever seen and I love him so, so much. 00:18:00.230 --> 00:18:03.609 He is such a lover boy and I'm so, so glad that 00:18:03.609 --> 00:18:07.450 we were able to get him on transport. All the 00:18:07.450 --> 00:18:09.809 rest of the cats and kittens are from the shelter 00:18:09.809 --> 00:18:12.029 and they were all, every single one of them, 00:18:12.250 --> 00:18:15.450 brought in as strays and never claimed. There 00:18:15.450 --> 00:18:19.289 are a few that are related though, so the E litter 00:18:19.289 --> 00:18:22.849 of two are mother and son, the J litter of two 00:18:22.849 --> 00:18:25.450 are litter mates, the S litter of two are litter 00:18:25.450 --> 00:18:27.950 mates, and then of course the F litter of five 00:18:27.950 --> 00:18:31.309 are all siblings. That is all the stories for 00:18:31.309 --> 00:18:35.789 this week. We are officially done with transports. 00:18:35.789 --> 00:18:38.710 We have done four transports in four weekends 00:18:38.710 --> 00:18:44.250 in a row and I am so tired. So far in 2026 we 00:18:44.250 --> 00:18:48.910 have transported over 240 animals in what like 00:18:48.910 --> 00:18:51.750 six weeks. That's insane. That's incredible. 00:18:52.289 --> 00:18:54.750 It's all because of y 'all and your never -ending 00:18:54.750 --> 00:18:57.490 support and encouragement. We are just so so 00:18:57.490 --> 00:19:01.109 thankful for y 'all. and we are so so very tired. 00:19:01.990 --> 00:19:05.930 We are very excited to have a weekend off before 00:19:05.930 --> 00:19:10.309 our next transport. It is a Ruff life, but someone's 00:19:10.309 --> 00:19:11.269 got to do it.