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Hello friends, welcome to Rough Life. We have quite a load today. This was actually supposed

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to be a mini transport capped at 25, but we went just a smidge over that with 73 critters

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on the van today. So let's jump right in. Ruffle Butts is a rough collie. She wandered

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up to someone's home back in January and the homeowner posted her all over Facebook, but

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no one ever came forward. I went there in early February to scan her for a microchip, and

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then I was supposed to take her home, but the lady told me when I got there that she

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just couldn't give her up. So I just left. Fast forward to the beginning of April, Ruffle

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Butts or Collie as we called her here was barking at night in the kennel where she lived and

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it was waking up the ladies babies. So she told me I could have her. We actually would

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have sent Collie last transport. But earlier this month, Collie ran up and sniffed a dying

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raccoon. It was never determined whether or not the raccoon had distemper or rabies or

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just another random disease. But we all decided it was just not worth the risk if she contracted

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whatever it had. So we sent off two distemper tests two weeks apart to make sure that she

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was healthy and luckily both tests came back negative and she was cleared to go.

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Wubba Nubb, formerly Moose, was originally supposed to come into our foster care in February

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when we had an opening at our doggy daycare foster. But Moose just couldn't wait two

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more weeks. He decided to go ahead and get hit by a car, breaking his pelvis and forcing

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us to take him early. Fortunately, the break wasn't bad enough for surgery or amputation.

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He just needed six weeks of restricted activity. Unfortunately, we had nowhere to put him for

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that. It just so happened the week after Moose was hit by a car, we were having a meeting

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with our local jail to start a fostering program with the inmates there. The following week,

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Moose was their very first foster. So we boarded him at the vet that first week and then he

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was able to go to the jail. He hung out with those guys every day and they took such good

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care of him. They were so upset when he left. But after being on restricted activity for

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so long, we knew he would be thrilled to go to doggy daycare for his last few weeks here

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in foster care. The jail actually took ruffle butts, the collie, when Moose left for us.

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Also fun fact, we could never remember if this dog's name was Goose or Moose. So if

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you see us calling him either one, just know it's the same dog. We just don't. We just

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don't know. Angel Deer, formerly Goldie, was picked up by one of our fosters in early February.

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They were driving along the highway and saw her run across the road into the woods.

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They pulled over, got out and clapped their hands and she came running into their arms as

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fast as she could. She was skin and bones soaking wet and terrified. They took her to the vet the

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next morning because something was very clearly very wrong with her back leg. The vet told them

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she was five months old and judging by the healing the leg had done, he estimated that she was hit

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by a car when she was about three months old. The break was so bad that the bone broke through

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her skin. Because it had healed incorrectly for so long, he thought amputating it would be the

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best option. The family, of course, couldn't pay for such an expensive, unexpected procedure,

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but they offered to foster her for us for as long as we needed them to if we would pay for it.

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And we definitely took them up on that offer. I think she stayed a little longer than they bargained

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for, but about a week or so ago we sent her to a new foster to see how she got along with their

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animals and environment and she did fantastic. Chico was found stuck in a pallet at one of

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our supporters' jobs. She works at Walmart and he was inside the back part of Walmart in the

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warehouse area. He had gotten completely stuck at the bottom of a wooden pallet and she got him

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free and then asked us if we would take him. Quincy May was dumped on a county road a few

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towns away. Someone actually saw it happen and they picked her up and kept her until we could

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get her on transport. Sophie, the giraffe, was picked up by one of our rescue partners' friends.

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She saw someone giving puppies away at her local hardware store. There were originally 12 puppies,

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but by the time she got there, Sophie was the last one. Sophie's mom is a registered lab and Sophie's

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dad is, and I quote, a full-blooded golden lab. If you don't know what a golden lab is, it is half

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golden retriever, half Labrador retriever. So I don't know how it could be full blood if it's two

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things, but she's cute regardless. Itzy Ritzy was seen in a small cage in a gas station parking lot.

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No cars or people were around him. One of our rescue partners' friends saw and went inside to

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ask the clerk why there was a puppy out there. She said it had been there since she got to work

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the day before. It was actually on the side of their building towards the back when she got to work

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that day, but she moved it under the awning so he would be in the shade and she gave him some water.

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The friend took the puppy home and left her number in case someone came by looking for the puppy,

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but I want to be honest, I can't think of a single reason you would ever need to leave your puppy in

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a small crate without food, water, or shelter in a gas station parking lot without telling anyone.

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So if an owner ever does come forward, I will personally make sure they never get this dog back.

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The G litter of two were found in the middle of the road soaking wet and trembling after a tornado

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ripped through their town. No owners were ever found. The two D pups are the doodles that I held

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back from last week's D litter of 11. Go listen to their story if you missed it, but I am very happy

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to update y'all and say they made an absolute 100% recovery. We never figured out what was wrong

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with them, but evidently all the meds and all the prayers were just what they need to turn things

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around. I was absolutely terrified we were going to lose them. They were some of the sickest dogs

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I've had in a long time and they lost a shocking amount of weight in what seemed like overnight

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one night. But they are fat little things now. I was so afraid they might die, but I am straight

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up about to kill them if they don't leave my dining room today. No, I'm just kidding. I am

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tore up that they are leaving and so is my husband. It's been almost eight weeks though since I've

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had my dining room doodle free and I am very ready to do some deep spring cleaning. The P family

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is a mama and seven puppies. A social worker was treating a client and he told her one of his

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neighbors in their apartment building just moved off and left the pregnant dog behind. He brought

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it into his unit, but apparently wasn't allowed to have dogs. So I don't know if it was just his

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unit specifically or the whole building and the other person was just keeping the dog hidden.

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Regardless, this client needed help rehoming the pregnant dogs. So the social worker reached out to

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one of our rescue partners who reached out to one of our other rescue partners who reached out to us.

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We got her set up in a foster home and she had her babies the very next day.

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She had nine total, but only seven were alive. The B family is a mama and eight puppies. They

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have a very similar story to the P family. They were left behind when renters moved out of someone's

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grandmother's rent home. The grandmother didn't know what to do. So her granddaughter posted it

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on Facebook for her. That's when I got a little petty. We really did not have room for this dog

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and I really didn't even want to pull her and all of her puppies. Several other rescues were tagged

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in the comments. So I didn't think anything of it when I saw it on Facebook one day until a few days

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later. This girl's husband made another post basically saying the same exact thing and he posted

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the same exact pictures. One of the comments was from someone in our area that tries to do animal

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rescue, but she's really not that legit. And her comment was so rude and so snarky. She said something

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like, sir, as I told your wife, I am working to find someone to take them. Everyone in our area is

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completely full. You posting this again only floods our feeds and wastes our time. You need to delete

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this post and give me time to find a rescue. And I mean, she's not entirely wrong. But I was annoyed

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that she claimed to reach out to everyone in our area and didn't even message Boomville Second Chance

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about these dogs that were left in Boomville. So I immediately commented on the post and said,

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be too cast. We'll be happy to take them. And then Jessica yelled at me. But oh well, lives were

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saved and it's fine. Okay, now let's talk about all these kitties. There were 45 cats total on the

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van today. The O family is a mama cat and six kittens. They were dumped in someone's car port

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with a bed and everything. The homeowner called one of our former fosters who reached out to us.

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The kittens barely had their eyes open at the time. Oh, and it was just a few hours before we

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were getting a horrible storm, one of the worst storms we've had in years. So luckily the homeowners

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didn't notice them and were able to keep them safe or they could have absolutely died that night.

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The L family is a mama cat and four kittens. She actually belongs to my neighbor at the doghouse.

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They surrendered her to us when they realized she was pregnant. She gave birth to the kittens in

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the back room of the doghouse. The M family is a mama and four kittens. They were left behind at

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an apartment complex a few towns away when someone was evicted or moved out. It was originally five

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kittens, but a tomcat caught and killed one of the kittens in front of their foster while she

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was running to help it. The E family is a mama and five kittens. They were found in some debris

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after a tornado tore apart a nearby town. No owner was ever found and they've been in our

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foster care ever since. The K litter of four kittens were actually a litter of five. They were found

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last week at one of our veterinary and partner clinics. She was closed that day, but just happened

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to come in to check on some of the animals in the clinic and she heard these kittens crying.

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Someone had thrown them over her fence into her giant dumpster. One of them was dead and after

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looking it over she realized it died from being thrown and hitting the ground so hard. It was a

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totally healthy kitten that could have lived such a long and happy life if whoever this scumbag was

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would have just brought them to the clinic to surrender them instead or even just left them

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in the parking lot. I mean seriously who throws kittens? Zara is from that same vet clinic.

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She was taken in by one of the vet techs when she was just a kitten last year. Speaking of

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throwing kittens, the vet tech saw someone throw Zara against a tree. I honestly can't even imagine

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what the reasoning behind that would be. I can at least understand why someone would throw kittens

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over a fence into a dumpster to get rid of them, but throwing a kitten against a tree, what's the

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point? I don't know. Anyway, it's been with them for the last year. All the rest of the cats are

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from a local shelter here in Florence. I got to do another shelter shopping spree and it was

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so much fun. This was our first time partnering with this shelter and it went so well. I actually

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went there this morning to pull two cats, Jelly Cat and Nook. When I got there though they were

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telling me about us angels. She's sweet but spicy so I asked the manager if it was okay if I

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facetimed Dr. Burton to show her the spicy kitty and see what she thought and I warned her. I said

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Dr. Burton is super wonderful but she can be a little blunt sometimes. Like she may answer this

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phone and be like F no we're not taking that cat no way. So like don't let that hurt your feelings.

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I'm sure it's a great cat. Dr. Burton just needs them to be sweet and adoptable so they're not

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attacking the team at intake tomorrow. The manager was like no no it's totally fine I understand.

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So I get B on facetime and I'm showing her this cat petting the cat. The cat's being super sweet

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and B goes yeah pull her she seems great. A couple seconds later she's like wait show me

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that cat over there pull her who's that cat beside them pull him I love him are those kittens get

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those kittens a mom and newborns get them for sure we can definitely take them. At the end of the

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phone call we had pulled every adoptable cat they had and that is why Dr. Burton and I should never

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go shopping together. All they had left when we were done were two cats that were already adopted

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they were just waiting for people to come pick them up and an old old old cat with no teeth that

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can only eat canned food and she's been there forever because nobody wants her. So if any of

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you listening are interested she is a long hair black baby and I will gladly go back and get her

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for you. So because all these cats were pulled from her shelter I don't know much about their

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back stories. Nook is pregnant I believe they said she was a stray that got picked up the Ken

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worker was so sad we were taking her she said if she wasn't pregnant the cat not the worker

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she would have taken her home the day she got there. Tubby Todd was a stray but his whole

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back right leg and hip were freshly shaved when they got him like he had just been at the vet

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they checked with all the vets in the area and no one recognized him and no owner ever came forward

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us angels the spicy girl her actual name is Demi she was an owner surrender last month after

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almost three years her family gave her up because they had recently developed allergies to her okay

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jelly cat was confiscated that's all I know you know if there was something juicy I would

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definitely tell y'all but that one word is all I know about her the f mama and her eight kittens

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well not all eight kittens are hers I don't know her story or whether or not she came in

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pregnant or with the kittens already but I do know right after she got there someone came in with

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newborn newborn kittens and their mom had been run over and killed so they stuck them in there with

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the mama and she took them right in the H kittens were owner surrenders but what's crazy is right

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after transport left today the shelter reached back out to me and said someone came in right after

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me with the mama cat of these kittens I asked if she was sweet and they said well the man came in

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holding her in his arms like a human baby so we're gonna swing by next week and pick her up too

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and with that it is now three minutes to midnight and I have been awake for entirely too long

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thanks for listening to this week's episode sorry it's a few hours later than normal but with 73

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critters on this mini transport there was a lot to do after the van rolled out make sure you hit

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that subscribe button to get notified about next week's episode it's our last transport until June

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but you already know plenty of stories for y'all in the meantime it's a rough life but someone's

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gonna do it