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Hello friends! Welcome to Ruff Life. Well, despite

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there being 44 animals on board today, this was

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actually a really light load and we had to cut

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about 15 puppies because we didn't get enough

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fosters. but even still this was a great transport

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because 15 of the animals that are on it today

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were scheduled for at least one other transport

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in the past and ended up getting cut for one

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reason or another. So 15 of the 29 dogs on board

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are finally finally getting their freedom ride

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and I am so happy. today's theme is hannah montana

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and i'm gonna be honest with you i did not watch

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hannah montana she came out after my time i guess

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but i do know some of the more famous songs like

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the climb actually in high school after that

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song had already been out for a little while

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our baseball coach was giving the team a pep

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talk before the state championship so he got

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up in front of all of them and he told them he

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had read a poem that was so inspiring he wanted

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to share it with them and then dead serious he

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goes i can almost see it that dream I'm dreaming.

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He got quite a ways into it before the boys completely

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lost it, were just like falling all over each

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other dying laughing, and they told him that

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he was actually quoting a Hannah Montana song

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from a movie that had come out like a year or

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two ago. So the entire school found out, of course,

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and to this day we haven't let him live it down.

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This has been like almost 15 years now. He is

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the principal now and people still say stuff

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to him like, hey coach, heard any more good Hannah

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Montana songs lately? It is so funny to me and

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I love that like it's like this inside joke with

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our whole school that we won't let him live down.

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Anyways, I don't know much about Hannah Montana.

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but when Melissa said that she would do the names

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if we did this theme, I said, heck yeah, I will

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be Hannah Montana's biggest fan. Hannah Montana

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was posted on Facebook for free. She was supposed

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to go on one of the previous transports but had

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been exposed to Parvo, thank you, oh litter of

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two, and had to be held back. Thankfully she

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never broke with it though. Need a Little Love

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or Mikey as he is known down here. I shared his

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story on the Foster's page, but it is such a

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good, terrible story that I'm gonna, I'm gonna

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say it on the podcast again, just in case anyone

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missed it. So a call was put into 9 -1 -1 when

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someone We think it's the neighbor saw a man

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hitting and kicking a puppy at the city park.

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Apparently the puppy wasn't walking well on the

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leash and the man eventually started picking

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him up and slamming him onto the concrete. So

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animal control was dispatched and by the time

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they arrived the man was picking up the puppy

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and throwing him off of a bridge into the creek

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on the side of the park. So animal control took

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the puppy immediately to the vet. He had several

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broken bones in his face, a broken eye socket,

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a broken vertebrae in his neck, scrapes and bruises,

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cuts, broken teeth. I mean, like he looked like

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he had been beat almost to death. He was very

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depressed. He barely even lifted his head the

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first few days at the vet. His face was so swollen.

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It was twice the size. as it is now, and one

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of his eyes was almost swollen completely shut.

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The owner of the puppy was arrested a few days

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later. We were told it was just going to be a

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misdemeanor because the puppy didn't die. However,

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the guy was already out on bond for a previous

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felony charge. The bond was revoked and he was

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taken back to the Department of Corrections.

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And when the DA looked at this case of abuse,

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he ended up filing or charging him with a felony.

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So yay, very happy. He is supposedly still at

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the DOC and waiting for his hearing. So I will

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definitely be keeping everyone updated on that.

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And then last transport, we sent possibly a litter

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mate, maybe not actually related, but from the

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same house and the same owner. One of the puppies

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on that transport. So this puppy, he ended up

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coming home with Jessica after a few days at

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the vet. I wanted him so bad. I almost fought

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her for him. But I decided that a two year old

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and a puppy with a broken neck. Probably not

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a good mix. So I let her have him. She said he

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was skittish at first, but started finding his

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place with her family. He did beautifully the

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first two weeks and was feeling better and gaining

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confidence and getting ready to go on transport.

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And the day before transport, she went to let

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him out of his pen that morning and he didn't

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move. at all, which is very unlike him. So she

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took him to the vet. We were all thinking that

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he had just like re -injured something or went

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off of his pain meds too soon. But no, of course,

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he was parvo positive immediately. So We just

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left him there. We were like, do everything,

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spend all of the money, whatever it takes, save

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the stock. So he spent the weekend at the vet

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in the ICU. He ended up doing great in just like

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a day or two, thanks to the new fancy super,

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super expensive monoclonal antibody shot. He

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spent the next week in isolation in Jessica's

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shed so as to not contaminate her house and yard

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any further. This was a very long week for all

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of them. He has finally been back up at her house

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this past week causing all the usual puppy havoc.

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Her old dogs and her chickens shed no tears when

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he left today. He's definitely going to be nervous

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in a new environment. Sudden movements still

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send him running and make him look at you like

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you've just crushed his whole world, but he definitely

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comes out of his shell quickly and he is such

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a good boy. Y 'all are going to love him so much.

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The O litter of two was found in a ditch. They

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were supposed to go on a February transport but

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ended up breaking with parvo. The male was actually

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so sick that the foster wanted to euthanize him

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just to end his suffering. Thankfully we were

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able to raise enough money to send him to the

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ICU at the vet and just leave him there for around

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the clock care and he was able to pull through

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and he's doing fantastic now. The R litter of

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three are from another rescue. I don't know how

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the other rescue got them. I don't know their

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story but they did not have room for them and

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they asked if we would take them. the c letter

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of five a stray came up and gave birth they are

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keeping her and we're spaying her but i am very

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mad about it because she is gorgeous and i wanted

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her so bad the m letter of nine An elderly lady

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went to the city's animal shelter looking for

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help, but they couldn't help her because she

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was from the county, not the city. The director

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that runs the place asked if we could help though,

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and the lady was so thankful that we were taking

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them that she donated $500. I don't know where

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they came from. I don't know if she had the mom.

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I don't know if she just found a box of puppies.

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I don't know, but... They were supposed to go

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last transport and they got bumped because they

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were the youngest. So very happy that they're

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getting to go. The J family is the main litter

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that I am so, so, so happy got to go today. Long

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story short, which this is not going to be any

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shorter than if I just told the long story. The

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mom came into the Alabama shelter pregnant in

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December. I was going to send her with her newborns

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back in January on like the very first transport

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of the year but I decided to hold them back and

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send them on the mommy and me transport in February.

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Then I realized they were already weaned by then

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so they weren't able to go so I bumped them from

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that one to the next transport and then I cut

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them from that transport because they were the

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youngest and the smallest and we needed to send

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older and bigger ones first because they needed

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out. Cut them from the next one because they

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ended up getting sick at the shelter. Sent five

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of the nine puppies on the February 28th transport

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because they were all recovered and doing great,

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but the four runts were still struggling. So

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I held the mom back with the babies because she

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didn't have a foster. Two of the puppies died

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from pneumonia down here. The other ones got

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cut from the March 7th transport because they

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still didn't have a foster. And finally, finally,

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here we are. staying near four months later and

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the whole family is going to be in Virginia tomorrow

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morning. I would love to see a family reunion

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in a few weeks with all of them together again.

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This day has been such a long time coming for

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that mom and she is so, so, so deserving. She

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was brought into the shelter as a stray with

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two other dogs that had been dumped in the county

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and they realized she was pregnant a few weeks

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later. The T litter of five, this is actually

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in owner surrender. We have taken multiple stray

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dogs from this lady's neighbor, so he contacted

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us when these puppies were just about two weeks

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old and another litter that's coming next year

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in support had just been born. So being responsible,

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getting on the list early, things people rarely

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do that we love. Then when these puppies were

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about six weeks old, he texted back and said,

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oh, sorry, she's actually just decided she's

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going to give them away. Whatever. Ten less puppies

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to think about. Fine. Then two months later,

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he texted again and said, actually, she did need

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help after all. with all 10 puppies because as

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it turns out she wasn't able to find anyone to

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take even one puppy. It's taken a month to be

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able to get them on a transport. They've just

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been on the waiting list and only the older litter

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is actually going on this transport because we

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didn't have enough fosters for the other five.

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Fortunately for the sake of crates on the van

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they are pretty skinny and malnourished for their

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age. They have been living in a nasty freezing

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cold and now burning up because it's so hot down

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here. Horse trailer, we all smell like manure.

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It killed us having to leave the other five there

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and only take half the puppies but thankfully

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we have a foster down here that's going to take

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the remaining five in a few days. As for the

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cats, Uncle Earl was brought in as a stray to

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the Alabama shelter. Oh also I forgot about him

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he was supposed to go last transport so there's

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actually 16 animals. He was supposed to go last

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transport and got cut because he was sneezing

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and we were afraid he might be sick but he's

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fine. The S family was brought into the Alabama

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shelter as strays but they're pretty certain

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that the people who were claiming that they were

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strays are actually the owners. The woman was

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super attached to them and was pretty upset to

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be leaving them there. The L family, the mama

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showed up at a lady's house during the ice storm

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a few weeks ago. She took her in and a few weeks

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later she took her to be spayed and they told

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her she was already pregnant. So she kept that.

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She kept her in her tiny closet and she gave

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birth to them in that closet and she was able

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to keep them safe until we were able to get them

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this week. They are all gorgeous. They are going

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to be the cutest kittens and the mom is one of

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the sweetest cats ever. That is all the stories

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for today. Thank you so much to everyone who

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signed up to foster This is only a two week foster

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period. Usually it's three weeks this time. It's

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only two so Technically you will all be available

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to foster again for the next Transport if you

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get these critters adopted in time. So go ahead

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and sign up for the next one. It's April 4th

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It's a ruff life, but someone's got to do it