1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:12,640 Hello friends, welcome to Rough Life. 2 00:00:12,640 --> 00:00:15,720 I want to tell you about the critters on our transport today. 3 00:00:15,720 --> 00:00:22,920 My plan, or well, my hope, anyway, is to do a transport podcast on transport weeks to 4 00:00:22,920 --> 00:00:26,160 tell you anything we know about the animals on the van that week. 5 00:00:26,160 --> 00:00:30,360 Then, on weeks we don't have transports, I'll tell you about some of my all-time favorite 6 00:00:30,360 --> 00:00:34,680 pulls from over the years and do some Where Are They Knows. 7 00:00:34,680 --> 00:00:39,480 So on today's transport, we had four of the seven German short hair pointers we pulled 8 00:00:39,480 --> 00:00:41,360 from a cruelty case. 9 00:00:41,360 --> 00:00:45,720 If you haven't seen the video about their story yet, I'll give you a quick summary. 10 00:00:45,720 --> 00:00:48,880 Another rescue group went to the owner's home last September. 11 00:00:48,880 --> 00:00:53,720 At the time, there were at least 13, possibly even 16 German short hair pointers living 12 00:00:53,720 --> 00:00:54,720 there. 13 00:00:54,720 --> 00:00:58,440 The owners were getting divorced and the wife was willing to surrender them all, but the 14 00:00:58,440 --> 00:01:00,000 husband was not. 15 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:04,120 Fast forward to January this year, they were finally able to press charges on the husband 16 00:01:04,120 --> 00:01:09,760 for animal abuse because the dogs were living there with no food, no shelter, and only rainwater 17 00:01:09,760 --> 00:01:10,880 to drink. 18 00:01:10,880 --> 00:01:14,200 There were only seven left, the others had died. 19 00:01:14,200 --> 00:01:17,520 The rescue group reached out to us and asked us if we could take them. 20 00:01:17,520 --> 00:01:20,840 We were more than happy to help out and we were so grateful that they put in all the 21 00:01:20,840 --> 00:01:25,080 hard work making sure these dogs got the justice they deserved. 22 00:01:25,080 --> 00:01:29,440 Four of them are on this transport and we're planning to send the other three on next week's 23 00:01:29,440 --> 00:01:32,120 transport. 24 00:01:32,120 --> 00:01:36,800 There's also a litter of two puppies on this van as well because so many people in my area 25 00:01:36,800 --> 00:01:39,600 know that I do something with animals. 26 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:43,400 It's not uncommon at all for people to dump animals around my house. 27 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:48,640 It's like they don't know exactly what house is mine, but they figure as long as they dump 28 00:01:48,640 --> 00:01:51,920 the animals close enough to my house, I'll find them. 29 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:53,560 And that's what happened with these two. 30 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:58,040 We got a call from a neighbor that there were two puppies in a ditch on a gravel road on 31 00:01:58,040 --> 00:01:59,880 the road next to mine. 32 00:01:59,880 --> 00:02:03,840 We were already completely full, but obviously we couldn't just leave them. 33 00:02:03,840 --> 00:02:07,520 Thankfully a foster stepped up and has kept them the last few weeks until we had room 34 00:02:07,520 --> 00:02:10,520 on transport to send them. 35 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:15,240 There's also a litter of 11 puppies on this transport who were posted on Facebook as free 36 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:16,820 to a good home. 37 00:02:16,820 --> 00:02:20,840 This is one of those times where I'm convinced it was a bait and switch. 38 00:02:20,840 --> 00:02:24,480 The video was of 11 tiny six week old puppies. 39 00:02:24,480 --> 00:02:29,520 Nice, clean, adorable, small. 40 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:33,360 We agreed to take them and ask for any information she had on them. 41 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:37,720 When she told us their birthday and we did the math, these puppies were already over 42 00:02:37,720 --> 00:02:39,320 three months old. 43 00:02:39,320 --> 00:02:40,560 That's not usually a big deal. 44 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:42,880 I mean, a puppy is a puppy. 45 00:02:42,880 --> 00:02:48,560 Not when you're sending all 11 to one foster and now they're twice as big as you thought 46 00:02:48,560 --> 00:02:50,440 they were originally. 47 00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:53,440 That's a deal breaker for some people. 48 00:02:53,440 --> 00:02:57,440 When we went to pick them up, there were dogs all over the yard that looked just like these 49 00:02:57,440 --> 00:02:58,440 puppies. 50 00:02:58,440 --> 00:03:01,880 I asked the owner which ones were the mom and dad and she said she had no idea who the 51 00:03:01,880 --> 00:03:07,000 dad was, but that the mom wasn't even out there at the time and that all the dogs I 52 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:10,440 was seeing were her puppies from a previous litter. 53 00:03:10,440 --> 00:03:14,960 She just kept them all instead of trying to find homes for them like she was these. 54 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:17,680 Unfortunately, that's not unusual down here. 55 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:23,200 Anyway, we left her a spay voucher for a vet in her town to give that poor mama spade 56 00:03:23,200 --> 00:03:26,360 and we offered to give her any help or supply she needed. 57 00:03:26,360 --> 00:03:31,100 When she was bringing the puppies out of her home, we were absolutely horrified. 58 00:03:31,100 --> 00:03:35,480 She had been keeping them in a room inside her home their entire three months. 59 00:03:35,480 --> 00:03:41,160 And if you know anything about puppies, you know they poop and pee a lot. 60 00:03:41,160 --> 00:03:45,080 These puppies were absolutely covered in dry poop and pee. 61 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:49,040 To the point we had to drive home with the windows down because it smelled so awful. 62 00:03:49,040 --> 00:03:53,040 They were greasy, they had hair loss, it was terrible. 63 00:03:53,040 --> 00:03:58,520 We got them back to the house and threw all 11 in the bathtub to hose them down immediately. 64 00:03:58,520 --> 00:04:05,000 After some deep cleaning and some next guard, they are looking and smelling so much better. 65 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:07,600 There's also a litter of nine on this transport. 66 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:09,800 They have a super weird story. 67 00:04:09,800 --> 00:04:14,520 The owner of the mama dog actually took her to the vet last year to be spayed. 68 00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:18,960 The vet opened her up and decided her female parts were too deformed and she would never 69 00:04:18,960 --> 00:04:21,000 be able to get pregnant. 70 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:26,400 So they just sewed her back up, charged them for a spay anyways, and sent them on their 71 00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:27,400 way. 72 00:04:27,400 --> 00:04:32,040 The owners were shocked a few months later when she ended up delivering puppies. 73 00:04:32,040 --> 00:04:35,880 The owners actually just went ahead and got the mom spayed themselves after the puppies 74 00:04:35,880 --> 00:04:43,000 were weaned so I'm very happy to say she will absolutely not be having any more puppies. 75 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:47,360 There's a two year old mama husky and her five puppies on this transport too. 76 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:49,160 Their story is sad. 77 00:04:49,160 --> 00:04:52,680 The owner's son bought the mama when she was just a puppy. 78 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:56,800 But soon after he moved away and he just left the dog with his mom. 79 00:04:56,800 --> 00:05:00,800 But because the owner's mother is very sick right now and she's had to move her mother 80 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:05,200 into her home and spends all her time taking care of her, she doesn't feel like she can 81 00:05:05,200 --> 00:05:08,960 give the mama husky the time and attention she deserves. 82 00:05:08,960 --> 00:05:14,000 So she's spent the majority of her life living in an outdoor kennel in mud. 83 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:18,200 So we're very thankful that she surrendered her with her puppies. 84 00:05:18,200 --> 00:05:20,880 There's also four cats going on this transport. 85 00:05:20,880 --> 00:05:24,920 I don't typically know a lot about cats that are on transports just because most of the 86 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:29,960 time they're outdoor cats that just show up in someone's yard or outdoor cats that show 87 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:32,480 up in someone's yard and have kittens. 88 00:05:32,480 --> 00:05:37,080 But today there is a mama cat and her two adult kittens that were surrendered to us 89 00:05:37,080 --> 00:05:40,040 when we went to pick up a litter of eight puppies. 90 00:05:40,040 --> 00:05:42,120 Those puppies will be coming next transport. 91 00:05:42,120 --> 00:05:44,560 So I'll tell you more about them then. 92 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:49,080 This is a little bit of a smaller transport that we normally do with only 35 animals on 93 00:05:49,080 --> 00:05:50,080 it. 94 00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:55,520 But we're getting some big old puppies and five adult dogs moved out on this one plus 95 00:05:55,520 --> 00:06:00,440 those three adult cats so they all needed the extra space. 96 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:04,560 Make sure you tune in next week to hear about everyone's story on the next transport. 97 00:06:04,560 --> 00:06:26,520 It's a rough life but someone's got to do it.