WEBVTT 00:00:11.230 --> 00:00:15.509 Welcome to Ruff Life. Everything has Parvo. 00:00:15.970 --> 00:00:19.589 Everything. Well, no one on this transport, hopefully, 00:00:19.730 --> 00:00:23.190 to my knowledge anyway, but everyone down here 00:00:23.190 --> 00:00:27.230 has Parvo. There was a litter of five that was 00:00:27.230 --> 00:00:29.989 supposed to go on this transport this week. They 00:00:29.989 --> 00:00:32.950 all died. They all died before we could even 00:00:32.950 --> 00:00:36.070 get to the owner's house to pick them up. There 00:00:36.070 --> 00:00:38.429 was a litter of two that was supposed to be going 00:00:38.429 --> 00:00:41.590 on this transport. They have Parvo. One of them 00:00:41.590 --> 00:00:44.710 was actually so pitiful that we sent it to the 00:00:44.710 --> 00:00:48.670 vet to stay at the ICU. The abused puppy, if 00:00:48.670 --> 00:00:50.909 you're on the Foster's Facebook page, you probably 00:00:50.909 --> 00:00:54.750 saw my post about him. um he got parvo from being 00:00:54.750 --> 00:00:58.210 at the vet and is now back at the vet at the 00:00:58.210 --> 00:01:01.750 icu one of the doodles on this transport was 00:01:01.750 --> 00:01:04.810 supposed to go last week but had parvo thankfully 00:01:04.810 --> 00:01:08.290 she has recovered completely and was able to 00:01:08.290 --> 00:01:12.510 go today it is just it's a mess it's a mess down 00:01:12.510 --> 00:01:18.170 here right now but on to today's non -parvo stories 00:01:18.459 --> 00:01:22.000 The theme is St. Patrick's Day. Thanks to our 00:01:22.000 --> 00:01:24.659 lovely Lauren for coming up with all the names 00:01:24.659 --> 00:01:29.340 for me. That was a huge help. St. Patty is from 00:01:29.340 --> 00:01:31.480 the hoarding case that we're helping with. I 00:01:31.480 --> 00:01:34.780 talked more in depth about this case last episode 00:01:34.780 --> 00:01:38.319 when we sent Starting Over Again. So go back 00:01:38.319 --> 00:01:40.019 and listen to that if you're interested in all 00:01:40.019 --> 00:01:43.040 the details. But to sum up, a puppy mill breeder 00:01:43.040 --> 00:01:45.159 was forced to surrender some of their animals. 00:01:45.700 --> 00:01:48.159 This girl was supposed to go last week, but she 00:01:48.159 --> 00:01:51.040 had a dead tooth that we wanted to get removed 00:01:51.040 --> 00:01:54.730 down here before we sent her up. Every single 00:01:54.730 --> 00:01:57.890 person who meets this dog wants to adopt her, 00:01:57.950 --> 00:02:00.810 literally. The vet, the vet techs, the people 00:02:00.810 --> 00:02:05.150 in the waiting room, her foster, me, everyone 00:02:05.150 --> 00:02:07.469 wants her. Whoever ends up getting her should 00:02:07.469 --> 00:02:12.830 feel like they won the jackpot. Amber Clover 00:02:12.830 --> 00:02:15.490 was posted on Facebook as free to a good home. 00:02:15.930 --> 00:02:19.469 She lives, the poster, lives in the same town 00:02:19.469 --> 00:02:23.240 as our rescue partner Tasha, so I texted Tasha 00:02:23.240 --> 00:02:25.919 a screenshot of the post. Just the screenshot. 00:02:26.000 --> 00:02:28.080 I didn't say anything along with it. And she 00:02:28.080 --> 00:02:30.939 wrote back, do you want it? And I said, yeah. 00:02:31.639 --> 00:02:34.139 I'm not even kidding you. Less than 10 minutes 00:02:34.139 --> 00:02:36.740 later, she sent me a picture of the dog sitting 00:02:36.740 --> 00:02:40.780 in her lap. I was like, was the girl in your 00:02:40.780 --> 00:02:43.560 dadgum driveway? When I texted you, how did you 00:02:43.560 --> 00:02:46.580 get this dog that fast? She said she messaged 00:02:46.580 --> 00:02:48.580 the girl as soon as I sent it to her and she 00:02:48.580 --> 00:02:50.580 told her that she would take the dog for her. 00:02:50.960 --> 00:02:53.460 Tasha told her she was currently at work and 00:02:53.460 --> 00:02:56.900 Tasha's family owns a funeral home. I think, 00:02:56.900 --> 00:03:00.139 don't quote me, but I think they're the only 00:03:00.139 --> 00:03:03.759 funeral home in their town. Anyways, Tasha told 00:03:03.759 --> 00:03:05.639 the girl that she was there working at the funeral 00:03:05.639 --> 00:03:08.539 home and the girl literally lives like across 00:03:08.539 --> 00:03:11.340 the street from the funeral home. So she just 00:03:11.340 --> 00:03:15.379 ran the dog over right then. It was the fastest 00:03:15.379 --> 00:03:18.539 pull we've ever done. But then she broke with 00:03:18.539 --> 00:03:21.840 Parvo like the next day or the day after. But 00:03:21.840 --> 00:03:23.699 she got over it really quickly. She made a full 00:03:23.699 --> 00:03:28.289 recovery. So hallelujah. Journey to Luck. This 00:03:28.289 --> 00:03:31.509 dog was picked up by animal control when his 00:03:31.509 --> 00:03:34.689 owner went to jail. His owner is the same one 00:03:34.689 --> 00:03:37.770 who abused the puppy that we posted about on 00:03:37.770 --> 00:03:41.610 the foster's page. They are supposedly siblings. 00:03:41.870 --> 00:03:44.780 I don't know if they're... actually littermates, 00:03:44.819 --> 00:03:47.199 but they did for sure come from the same house. 00:03:47.439 --> 00:03:50.759 They do for sure know each other. However, since 00:03:50.759 --> 00:03:56.199 we're 99 % sure that abused puppy got Parvo at 00:03:56.199 --> 00:03:58.800 the vet and not at their home that they shared 00:03:58.800 --> 00:04:01.479 together, this guy was still fine to come on 00:04:01.479 --> 00:04:05.509 transport. So we are praying that abused puppy 00:04:05.509 --> 00:04:08.629 will pull through so that next time I can tell 00:04:08.629 --> 00:04:11.729 you the whole big long story on him, but as of 00:04:11.729 --> 00:04:15.550 right now he's still in the ICU at the vet and 00:04:15.550 --> 00:04:19.750 Journey to Luck is on his way to the best life 00:04:19.750 --> 00:04:24.209 ever. The age letter of two. Another rescue set 00:04:24.209 --> 00:04:28.810 a trap trying to catch a feral dog and instead 00:04:28.810 --> 00:04:31.629 they ended up catching these two puppies on accident. 00:04:32.360 --> 00:04:37.339 No one knows why they didn't take them. No one 00:04:37.339 --> 00:04:40.240 knows. It was actually early December when all 00:04:40.240 --> 00:04:42.819 this happened and we were closed for that month. 00:04:43.339 --> 00:04:47.000 So they reached it out to one of our fosters 00:04:47.000 --> 00:04:51.160 and asked our foster to foster for them. So sometime 00:04:51.160 --> 00:04:54.910 in January the fosters because they're also my 00:04:54.910 --> 00:04:58.110 fosters circled back with me that the other rescue 00:04:58.110 --> 00:05:01.009 still wouldn't take them and they were asking 00:05:01.009 --> 00:05:05.040 my fosters to ask me if we would take them. and 00:05:05.040 --> 00:05:06.759 they were still fostering them so I was like 00:05:06.759 --> 00:05:09.420 yeah sure I went ahead got them scheduled for 00:05:09.420 --> 00:05:12.339 one of our January transports and then the fosters 00:05:12.339 --> 00:05:15.220 reached out to me like three days later and said 00:05:15.220 --> 00:05:18.660 the other rescue had just committed to them and 00:05:18.660 --> 00:05:20.519 they're actually going to be able to get them 00:05:20.519 --> 00:05:22.680 on their transport sooner than I was going to 00:05:22.680 --> 00:05:25.579 be able to get them on mine so fantastic everything 00:05:25.579 --> 00:05:30.399 worked out great love it and then the next week 00:05:30.399 --> 00:05:34.139 literally like I think it was the day or the 00:05:34.139 --> 00:05:37.860 day after the transport left that they were supposed 00:05:37.860 --> 00:05:41.060 to be going on. That rescue fell through and 00:05:41.060 --> 00:05:43.220 then they told them they would for sure not be 00:05:43.220 --> 00:05:45.600 able to commit to these puppies ever period done 00:05:45.600 --> 00:05:47.879 with them. Sorry, you're just going to have to 00:05:47.879 --> 00:05:51.779 keep them like insane. So it's taken us a little 00:05:51.779 --> 00:05:54.779 while to get them back on a transport schedule 00:05:54.779 --> 00:05:58.040 because a, they were huge, but b, they were safe 00:05:58.040 --> 00:06:00.579 with these fosters and like we knew nothing was 00:06:00.579 --> 00:06:02.660 going to happen to them where they were and we 00:06:02.660 --> 00:06:05.660 had so many other animals that were in terrible 00:06:05.660 --> 00:06:08.259 environments that were like emergency cases, 00:06:09.019 --> 00:06:12.279 but they are super happy and we are super happy 00:06:12.279 --> 00:06:14.600 that they are finally making their way up north 00:06:14.600 --> 00:06:18.639 after a very, very long foster period down here 00:06:18.639 --> 00:06:23.540 for no reason. The L letter of 9 belonged to 00:06:23.540 --> 00:06:27.519 a stray that showed up at a family's home. The 00:06:27.519 --> 00:06:30.100 man didn't know that rescue was even a thing, 00:06:30.420 --> 00:06:33.540 so he didn't know what he was gonna do with all 00:06:33.540 --> 00:06:37.560 these puppies, so by the time they were... pretty 00:06:37.560 --> 00:06:39.879 much grown. I mean they were like almost four 00:06:39.879 --> 00:06:42.180 months old. He was like what am I gonna do? He 00:06:42.180 --> 00:06:45.600 found out about us and he reached out to us. 00:06:45.620 --> 00:06:47.740 We were able to get them on actually pretty quickly. 00:06:47.759 --> 00:06:51.740 I'm impressed with us actually. But he is going 00:06:51.740 --> 00:06:54.160 to keep the mom and we will spay her for free 00:06:54.160 --> 00:06:58.060 for him. All the rest of the animals on this 00:06:58.060 --> 00:07:01.019 transport are from our Alabama shelter friends 00:07:01.019 --> 00:07:04.579 and you know what I say, we love them. oh so 00:07:04.579 --> 00:07:08.540 dearly, but they never ever have a lot of information 00:07:08.540 --> 00:07:11.959 on their animals, which is such a bummer. The 00:07:11.959 --> 00:07:14.740 R litter of two were owner surrenders. The owners 00:07:14.740 --> 00:07:16.860 have health issues and they weren't able to care 00:07:16.860 --> 00:07:19.899 for them. The I litter of two were brought in 00:07:19.899 --> 00:07:22.120 as strays. The G litter of three were picked 00:07:22.120 --> 00:07:27.069 up as strays. The E family was brought in as 00:07:27.069 --> 00:07:30.930 strays, however, they gave the puppies date of 00:07:30.930 --> 00:07:33.290 birth when they were dropping them off, so we 00:07:33.290 --> 00:07:35.009 kind of think that they were owner surrenders 00:07:35.009 --> 00:07:38.949 instead of strays. The F family were owner surrenders. 00:07:38.970 --> 00:07:40.870 The owner could no longer care for them. The 00:07:40.870 --> 00:07:44.610 mom is a purebred Australian shepherd. We don't 00:07:44.610 --> 00:07:47.250 know what the dad was, but clearly he was some 00:07:47.250 --> 00:07:51.389 kind of poodle doodle oodle mix. The sea litter 00:07:51.389 --> 00:07:54.750 of eight, oh my gosh, can you even deal with 00:07:54.750 --> 00:07:57.290 how cute those teeny teeny tiny puppies are? 00:07:57.329 --> 00:08:00.189 I don't even like chihuahuas and those are the 00:08:00.189 --> 00:08:03.670 cutest things I've ever seen. They are from a 00:08:03.670 --> 00:08:06.670 very old couple, they couldn't keep them but 00:08:06.670 --> 00:08:09.889 we will get them on spade for them. As for the 00:08:09.889 --> 00:08:12.889 cats, Dublin was a stray, White Horse was a stray, 00:08:13.189 --> 00:08:16.129 Tato, I named that one Tato because she looks 00:08:16.129 --> 00:08:21.550 like a potato. She was a stray. Kerrygold was 00:08:21.550 --> 00:08:25.029 an owner surrender. Nugget O'gold was a stray. 00:08:26.189 --> 00:08:28.170 And that is all the stories for this week. We 00:08:28.170 --> 00:08:31.470 ended up with 41 animals on this fan, which is 00:08:31.470 --> 00:08:36.490 incredible considering 25 were huge four or five 00:08:36.490 --> 00:08:39.830 month old puppies. Three were adult dogs and 00:08:39.830 --> 00:08:43.629 five were adult cats. It was really truly the 00:08:43.629 --> 00:08:46.529 microscopic chihuahua puppies that are the only 00:08:46.529 --> 00:08:49.409 reason we were able to fit so many. If you listened 00:08:49.409 --> 00:08:52.149 to last week's episode, though, you may remember 00:08:52.149 --> 00:08:55.230 that I was absolutely dead set on sending the 00:08:55.230 --> 00:08:58.149 mom and litter mates to the R Litter -A -5 that 00:08:58.149 --> 00:09:02.070 was on last week's transport. Well. They are 00:09:02.070 --> 00:09:04.289 not on this transport after all. The puppies 00:09:04.289 --> 00:09:07.070 are still getting over kennel cough and now they 00:09:07.070 --> 00:09:09.889 have pneumonia on top of that so they are not 00:09:09.889 --> 00:09:13.009 well enough to come. I was going to just go ahead 00:09:13.009 --> 00:09:15.909 and send the mom anyways but that would just 00:09:15.909 --> 00:09:18.409 be so hard to keep track of. One family spread 00:09:18.409 --> 00:09:20.750 across three different transports, three different 00:09:20.750 --> 00:09:23.929 themes. It would even I think by the time these 00:09:23.929 --> 00:09:26.269 will be on, it would even be three different 00:09:26.269 --> 00:09:29.490 months. Plus we really didn't have room for the 00:09:29.490 --> 00:09:33.169 mom anyways. And with her babies being as sick 00:09:33.169 --> 00:09:35.289 as they are, I don't know if that would stress 00:09:35.289 --> 00:09:39.129 them out more to like all of a sudden be in the 00:09:39.129 --> 00:09:41.330 shelter without their mom anymore because they 00:09:41.330 --> 00:09:43.409 were born in the shelter. They've never been 00:09:43.409 --> 00:09:45.350 in the shelter without their mom. So to all of 00:09:45.350 --> 00:09:47.750 a sudden have their mom taken from the cage and 00:09:47.750 --> 00:09:49.629 then be in the cage alone without their mom, 00:09:49.909 --> 00:09:52.539 I don't know. it stressed me out to think about 00:09:52.539 --> 00:09:54.500 stressing them out when they're already so sick. 00:09:55.059 --> 00:09:57.340 The mama can't go anywhere, she can't be adopted 00:09:57.340 --> 00:09:59.620 out, another rescue can't pull her, she can't 00:09:59.620 --> 00:10:02.379 escape. So I mean she's probably bored and she's 00:10:02.379 --> 00:10:05.379 probably ready to get out of there, but she's 00:10:05.379 --> 00:10:07.620 she's gonna be there when we can take the puppies. 00:10:07.740 --> 00:10:10.399 So I figured better safe than sorry, keep her 00:10:10.399 --> 00:10:12.700 there with the itty bitty babies until they're 00:10:12.700 --> 00:10:16.539 fully recovered, but they are coming soon. They 00:10:16.539 --> 00:10:21.840 really are. But it's a Ruff life. It's a very, 00:10:21.840 --> 00:10:25.279 it's a very Ruff life right now. But someone's 00:10:25.279 --> 00:10:25.919 gotta do it.