Welcome to Ruff Life. Everything has Parvo.
Everything. Well, no one on this transport, hopefully,
to my knowledge anyway, but everyone down here
has Parvo. There was a litter of five that was
supposed to go on this transport this week. They
all died. They all died before we could even
get to the owner's house to pick them up. There
was a litter of two that was supposed to be going
on this transport. They have Parvo. One of them
was actually so pitiful that we sent it to the
vet to stay at the ICU. The abused puppy, if
you're on the Foster's Facebook page, you probably
saw my post about him. um he got parvo from being
at the vet and is now back at the vet at the
icu one of the doodles on this transport was
supposed to go last week but had parvo thankfully
she has recovered completely and was able to
go today it is just it's a mess it's a mess down
here right now but on to today's non -parvo stories
The theme is St. Patrick's Day. Thanks to our
lovely Lauren for coming up with all the names
for me. That was a huge help. St. Patty is from
the hoarding case that we're helping with. I
talked more in depth about this case last episode
when we sent Starting Over Again. So go back
and listen to that if you're interested in all
the details. But to sum up, a puppy mill breeder
was forced to surrender some of their animals.
This girl was supposed to go last week, but she
had a dead tooth that we wanted to get removed
down here before we sent her up. Every single
person who meets this dog wants to adopt her,
literally. The vet, the vet techs, the people
in the waiting room, her foster, me, everyone
wants her. Whoever ends up getting her should
feel like they won the jackpot. Amber Clover
was posted on Facebook as free to a good home.
She lives, the poster, lives in the same town
as our rescue partner Tasha, so I texted Tasha
a screenshot of the post. Just the screenshot.
I didn't say anything along with it. And she
wrote back, do you want it? And I said, yeah.
I'm not even kidding you. Less than 10 minutes
later, she sent me a picture of the dog sitting
in her lap. I was like, was the girl in your
dadgum driveway? When I texted you, how did you
get this dog that fast? She said she messaged
the girl as soon as I sent it to her and she
told her that she would take the dog for her.
Tasha told her she was currently at work and
Tasha's family owns a funeral home. I think,
don't quote me, but I think they're the only
funeral home in their town. Anyways, Tasha told
the girl that she was there working at the funeral
home and the girl literally lives like across
the street from the funeral home. So she just
ran the dog over right then. It was the fastest
pull we've ever done. But then she broke with
Parvo like the next day or the day after. But
she got over it really quickly. She made a full
recovery. So hallelujah. Journey to Luck. This
dog was picked up by animal control when his
owner went to jail. His owner is the same one
who abused the puppy that we posted about on
the foster's page. They are supposedly siblings.
I don't know if they're... actually littermates,
but they did for sure come from the same house.
They do for sure know each other. However, since
we're 99 % sure that abused puppy got Parvo at
the vet and not at their home that they shared
together, this guy was still fine to come on
transport. So we are praying that abused puppy
will pull through so that next time I can tell
you the whole big long story on him, but as of
right now he's still in the ICU at the vet and
Journey to Luck is on his way to the best life
ever. The age letter of two. Another rescue set
a trap trying to catch a feral dog and instead
they ended up catching these two puppies on accident.
No one knows why they didn't take them. No one
knows. It was actually early December when all
this happened and we were closed for that month.
So they reached it out to one of our fosters
and asked our foster to foster for them. So sometime
in January the fosters because they're also my
fosters circled back with me that the other rescue
still wouldn't take them and they were asking
my fosters to ask me if we would take them. and
they were still fostering them so I was like
yeah sure I went ahead got them scheduled for
one of our January transports and then the fosters
reached out to me like three days later and said
the other rescue had just committed to them and
they're actually going to be able to get them
on their transport sooner than I was going to
be able to get them on mine so fantastic everything
worked out great love it and then the next week
literally like I think it was the day or the
day after the transport left that they were supposed
to be going on. That rescue fell through and
then they told them they would for sure not be
able to commit to these puppies ever period done
with them. Sorry, you're just going to have to
keep them like insane. So it's taken us a little
while to get them back on a transport schedule
because a, they were huge, but b, they were safe
with these fosters and like we knew nothing was
going to happen to them where they were and we
had so many other animals that were in terrible
environments that were like emergency cases,
but they are super happy and we are super happy
that they are finally making their way up north
after a very, very long foster period down here
for no reason. The L letter of 9 belonged to
a stray that showed up at a family's home. The
man didn't know that rescue was even a thing,
so he didn't know what he was gonna do with all
these puppies, so by the time they were... pretty
much grown. I mean they were like almost four
months old. He was like what am I gonna do? He
found out about us and he reached out to us.
We were able to get them on actually pretty quickly.
I'm impressed with us actually. But he is going
to keep the mom and we will spay her for free
for him. All the rest of the animals on this
transport are from our Alabama shelter friends
and you know what I say, we love them. oh so
dearly, but they never ever have a lot of information
on their animals, which is such a bummer. The
R litter of two were owner surrenders. The owners
have health issues and they weren't able to care
for them. The I litter of two were brought in
as strays. The G litter of three were picked
up as strays. The E family was brought in as
strays, however, they gave the puppies date of
birth when they were dropping them off, so we
kind of think that they were owner surrenders
instead of strays. The F family were owner surrenders.
The owner could no longer care for them. The
mom is a purebred Australian shepherd. We don't
know what the dad was, but clearly he was some
kind of poodle doodle oodle mix. The sea litter
of eight, oh my gosh, can you even deal with
how cute those teeny teeny tiny puppies are?
I don't even like chihuahuas and those are the
cutest things I've ever seen. They are from a
very old couple, they couldn't keep them but
we will get them on spade for them. As for the
cats, Dublin was a stray, White Horse was a stray,
Tato, I named that one Tato because she looks
like a potato. She was a stray. Kerrygold was
an owner surrender. Nugget O'gold was a stray.
And that is all the stories for this week. We
ended up with 41 animals on this fan, which is
incredible considering 25 were huge four or five
month old puppies. Three were adult dogs and
five were adult cats. It was really truly the
microscopic chihuahua puppies that are the only
reason we were able to fit so many. If you listened
to last week's episode, though, you may remember
that I was absolutely dead set on sending the
mom and litter mates to the R Litter -A -5 that
was on last week's transport. Well. They are
not on this transport after all. The puppies
are still getting over kennel cough and now they
have pneumonia on top of that so they are not
well enough to come. I was going to just go ahead
and send the mom anyways but that would just
be so hard to keep track of. One family spread
across three different transports, three different
themes. It would even I think by the time these
will be on, it would even be three different
months. Plus we really didn't have room for the
mom anyways. And with her babies being as sick
as they are, I don't know if that would stress
them out more to like all of a sudden be in the
shelter without their mom anymore because they
were born in the shelter. They've never been
in the shelter without their mom. So to all of
a sudden have their mom taken from the cage and
then be in the cage alone without their mom,
I don't know. it stressed me out to think about
stressing them out when they're already so sick.
The mama can't go anywhere, she can't be adopted
out, another rescue can't pull her, she can't
escape. So I mean she's probably bored and she's
probably ready to get out of there, but she's
she's gonna be there when we can take the puppies.
So I figured better safe than sorry, keep her
there with the itty bitty babies until they're
fully recovered, but they are coming soon. They
really are. But it's a Ruff life. It's a very,
it's a very Ruff life right now. But someone's
gotta do it.