1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:29,840 Thank you. 2 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:40,560 Hello friends, welcome to Rough Life. 3 00:00:40,560 --> 00:00:44,480 Lord have mercy, I'm gonna be real with y'all, I don't even remember the last time I sat 4 00:00:44,480 --> 00:00:46,480 down to do this podcast. 5 00:00:46,480 --> 00:00:49,200 It has been quite a few weeks. 6 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:54,680 I know we went to the beach on a family vacation in the middle of May, and I meant to pre-record 7 00:00:54,680 --> 00:00:57,640 an episode but just ran out of time. 8 00:00:57,640 --> 00:01:02,720 And then when we got back, it was just non-stop chaos trying to get everything ready for this 9 00:01:02,720 --> 00:01:05,960 transport after being off for five weeks. 10 00:01:05,960 --> 00:01:11,960 And then, on top of everything else, I went and got myself a litter of sick puppies to 11 00:01:11,960 --> 00:01:13,520 take care of. 12 00:01:13,520 --> 00:01:17,400 But I'll tell you all about them in another episode because this is already gonna be a 13 00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:18,960 long one. 14 00:01:18,960 --> 00:01:24,160 I know I typically start my stories off with the singles, for no reason other than the 15 00:01:24,160 --> 00:01:29,600 fact that they're listed first on my spreadsheet, but this week I'm going to start with the 16 00:01:29,600 --> 00:01:34,960 litters that have littermates or relatives coming on a later transport. 17 00:01:34,960 --> 00:01:40,400 I'm going to refer their foster families back to this episode for their stories, so I don't 18 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:45,520 want them to have to listen to 15 minutes of me blabbing before they get to their puppy's 19 00:01:45,520 --> 00:01:47,920 30 second story. 20 00:01:47,920 --> 00:01:51,360 So up first is the end litter of three. 21 00:01:51,360 --> 00:01:57,080 Like I said, not all of them came this week, so this is actually a litter of four. 22 00:01:57,080 --> 00:02:00,400 And actually, I didn't even want to pull them. 23 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:04,720 They were posted on Facebook and my mother saw them and sent me the screenshot of the 24 00:02:04,720 --> 00:02:09,560 puppy who we held back and begged me to pull them. 25 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:14,600 This puppy's eye is like all but falling out of its head. 26 00:02:14,600 --> 00:02:17,720 It is nasty, y'all. 27 00:02:17,720 --> 00:02:21,080 All four of them had been dumped on a bridge several towns over. 28 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:25,160 They were all skin and bones, so people had been stopping and throwing food out for them, 29 00:02:25,160 --> 00:02:28,440 but no one offered to pick them up or foster them. 30 00:02:28,440 --> 00:02:33,040 So because this wasn't medical case, I sent the screenshot to Dr. Burton and I asked if 31 00:02:33,040 --> 00:02:35,640 I could pull this litter. 32 00:02:35,640 --> 00:02:41,000 But because she was on her honeymoon at the time, it took her like four or five hours 33 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:42,760 to get back to me. 34 00:02:42,760 --> 00:02:44,680 And she said no, don't pull them. 35 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:46,680 But the damage was done. 36 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:51,040 My willpower had been worn away and I had already agreed to pull this whole litter. 37 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:53,840 We got them the next day and we took the eyeball puppy. 38 00:02:53,840 --> 00:02:55,920 That's actually what we named it at the vet. 39 00:02:55,920 --> 00:02:56,920 Eyeball puppy. 40 00:02:56,920 --> 00:02:58,880 We took it straight to the vet. 41 00:02:58,880 --> 00:03:03,160 They ended up keeping her overnight because they had to sedate her to do like a deep clean 42 00:03:03,160 --> 00:03:05,560 and examination of her eye. 43 00:03:05,560 --> 00:03:08,760 We picked her up the next day, but because she had to be kept separate from her litter 44 00:03:08,760 --> 00:03:13,760 mates anyways, we went ahead and just scheduled the other three for transport. 45 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:18,680 The vet thinks it's likely an infection and or trauma that's causing her eye to be so 46 00:03:18,680 --> 00:03:21,680 gross. 47 00:03:21,680 --> 00:03:26,320 And because it's probably super sore and sensitive and because we need to keep it clean, she 48 00:03:26,320 --> 00:03:31,440 couldn't be with the litter mates who might accidentally scratch it or hurt it. 49 00:03:31,440 --> 00:03:39,080 And they did end up being pretty sweet, so I guess I'm glad we pulled them after all. 50 00:03:39,080 --> 00:03:47,600 The P litter of two and the O litter of six are actually all related to four more that 51 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:50,480 are coming next week, hopefully. 52 00:03:50,480 --> 00:03:55,200 They are all labradoodles that were surrendered to us by a breeder. 53 00:03:55,200 --> 00:04:00,120 From what I understand, it was someone's mother's breeding business. 54 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:06,440 She died or maybe she just went into an assisted living facility or something, but her son 55 00:04:06,440 --> 00:04:09,000 and his wife took it over. 56 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:13,000 I think they thought this was going to be way easier than it actually was. 57 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:19,600 The litter of four that's still here in Mississippi is a year old and hasn't sold. 58 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:23,800 Then this litter of two was born in January this year. 59 00:04:23,800 --> 00:04:28,240 They sold all the other litter mates, but the female had something wrong with her eyelid 60 00:04:28,240 --> 00:04:33,880 and it makes the eyelashes curl in and poke her eye, so she had to have a fairly expensive 61 00:04:33,880 --> 00:04:36,720 surgery to correct it. 62 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:39,320 And then this litter of six was born in March. 63 00:04:39,320 --> 00:04:43,960 I don't know if they sold any of them, but thankfully they realized this was not the 64 00:04:43,960 --> 00:04:47,960 money making business they thought it was. 65 00:04:47,960 --> 00:04:52,520 Two of the breeding mamas have already been spayed and then we gave them a voucher to get 66 00:04:52,520 --> 00:04:54,840 the last one spayed as well. 67 00:04:54,840 --> 00:05:00,000 I will say, as much as I cannot stay in the backyard breeder, I really think these people 68 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:03,880 just didn't know what they were getting into and they truly just wanted what was best for 69 00:05:03,880 --> 00:05:05,160 the dogs. 70 00:05:05,160 --> 00:05:09,080 They could have just euthanized the one that needed the expensive surgery just to save some 71 00:05:09,080 --> 00:05:12,880 money, but they went ahead and got it done anyways. 72 00:05:12,880 --> 00:05:17,560 And although they did end up putting them as free to a good home on Facebook, that's 73 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:23,000 how we even ended up with them, I know that they weren't mistreated or anything like that. 74 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:24,880 Definitely not a puppy male situation. 75 00:05:24,880 --> 00:05:28,080 They love, love, love the parent dogs. 76 00:05:28,080 --> 00:05:32,360 I think they just kind of got stuck with all these puppies when they didn't sell. 77 00:05:32,360 --> 00:05:38,280 The S litter of eight are part of a group we're calling the washer machine dogs. 78 00:05:38,280 --> 00:05:43,920 I actually have a column on our spreadsheet where I put the group names of each litter. 79 00:05:43,920 --> 00:05:49,200 So for singles, I usually just put single or the main single things like that. 80 00:05:49,200 --> 00:05:54,800 But for litters, I'll say something like the bank litter because they were found at a bank 81 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:59,040 or the culvert puppies because they were found in a culvert, just things like that. 82 00:05:59,040 --> 00:06:02,640 So I can easily identify which litter is which. 83 00:06:02,640 --> 00:06:08,480 So the team at Wolf Trap was very confused when they saw washer machine as the group 84 00:06:08,480 --> 00:06:16,080 name and even more confused when they saw three litters named washer machine litters. 85 00:06:16,080 --> 00:06:19,080 Okay, so why do we call them that? 86 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:24,600 Well, a man posted on Facebook a few weeks ago that he had like 20 something puppies 87 00:06:24,600 --> 00:06:26,720 he was needing help deworming. 88 00:06:26,720 --> 00:06:30,240 Jessica told him to reach out to be to cast and we would help him. 89 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:34,640 They talked and then she went out to his house like a day or two later and she sent me pictures 90 00:06:34,640 --> 00:06:39,760 and videos of the yard they were living in and I'm not even exaggerating when I say this. 91 00:06:39,760 --> 00:06:45,240 There were seriously 50 to 75 washer machines all over their yard. 92 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:48,680 Several microwaves and dryers too, but mostly washer machines. 93 00:06:48,680 --> 00:06:50,920 It's so weird. 94 00:06:50,920 --> 00:06:57,240 So anyways, this guy had a dog who got pregnant, then had a stray wander up who was pregnant 95 00:06:57,240 --> 00:07:01,560 and then his daughter's dog that she left behind at his house got pregnant. 96 00:07:01,560 --> 00:07:08,680 So this man went from already too many animals because he has like bunnies and pigs too, 97 00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:12,080 to way way too many animals. 98 00:07:12,080 --> 00:07:18,680 They are taken care of definitely not well taken care of but taken care of decently enough 99 00:07:18,680 --> 00:07:23,800 that we cannot force him to surrender the mamas to us with their puppies or anything. 100 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:30,640 But he is very happy and very relieved to be getting spay vouchers for all of them. 101 00:07:30,640 --> 00:07:36,760 So this week we sent eight of the puppies and there is still a mama with six and then 102 00:07:36,760 --> 00:07:40,480 a mama with newborns that will be coming in a few weeks. 103 00:07:40,480 --> 00:07:46,280 And if anyone needs a washer machine, let me know because I know a guy. 104 00:07:46,280 --> 00:07:50,600 The B litter of seven were owner surrenders, kinda. 105 00:07:50,600 --> 00:07:56,520 The people who found parton and puppy love from the April 12th transport also found the 106 00:07:56,520 --> 00:08:02,160 mama dog of the B litter with the P puppies as well. 107 00:08:02,160 --> 00:08:07,000 They were all dumped near their house on the side of the road and she ended up being pregnant 108 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:10,680 so they just kept her and let her have her babies with them. 109 00:08:10,680 --> 00:08:14,480 They ended up just falling madly in love with her and decided to keep her and just give 110 00:08:14,480 --> 00:08:15,800 us the puppies. 111 00:08:15,800 --> 00:08:21,120 They took such good care of those sweet babies and they were heartbroken at transport when 112 00:08:21,120 --> 00:08:23,160 they were giving them to us to load up. 113 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:26,040 I know they wanted to keep all of them. 114 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:31,040 The T litter of six have been with us for literally forever. 115 00:08:31,040 --> 00:08:37,560 They were the litter we got when the police shot and killed their mama dog right in front 116 00:08:37,560 --> 00:08:41,040 of them when they were just barely a few hours old. 117 00:08:41,040 --> 00:08:46,000 I actually will never forget this litter not because of how traumatic and awful that story 118 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:51,480 is but because of how awesome and wonderful all of you are. 119 00:08:51,480 --> 00:08:55,680 We got the call from Animal Control and he basically said there are six newborn puppies 120 00:08:55,680 --> 00:08:57,800 here come and get them. 121 00:08:57,800 --> 00:09:01,040 In his defense he knew they would die at the shelter if we didn't come and get them. 122 00:09:01,040 --> 00:09:03,600 But we had no idea what we were going to do with them. 123 00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:07,560 None of us were able to bottle feed them at the time and we had no idea where we were 124 00:09:07,560 --> 00:09:09,520 going to put them. 125 00:09:09,520 --> 00:09:15,160 Only in a state of panic I made a facebook post in our wolf trap fosters group and I 126 00:09:15,160 --> 00:09:22,400 said something like emergency no time to explain we definitely need formula and canned food. 127 00:09:22,400 --> 00:09:24,280 Like that's it. 128 00:09:24,280 --> 00:09:30,640 And within a few hours without even knowing the reason why y'all had bought all the canned 129 00:09:30,640 --> 00:09:37,520 food and puppy formula from all of the surrounding walmards in my area and you purchased everything 130 00:09:37,520 --> 00:09:40,240 I had put on our amazon wish list. 131 00:09:40,240 --> 00:09:46,520 You didn't even know the story or the reason or anything but you saw my cry for help and 132 00:09:46,520 --> 00:09:48,920 you sent me everything I needed. 133 00:09:48,920 --> 00:09:53,120 I literally cried when I was telling Justin about it that night. 134 00:09:53,120 --> 00:10:00,280 So anyways at the time we had a mama dog Mary D who had nine three and a half week old 135 00:10:00,280 --> 00:10:02,040 puppies. 136 00:10:02,040 --> 00:10:08,120 They were staying at the dog house and I at my house had 11 four week old puppies and 137 00:10:08,120 --> 00:10:10,960 a mama who would have rather died than feed them. 138 00:10:10,960 --> 00:10:13,280 It was Dolly she was the worst mom. 139 00:10:13,280 --> 00:10:15,200 So mine were already weaned. 140 00:10:15,200 --> 00:10:20,680 I ended up taking the nine puppies from Mary D and weaning them at my house so that Mary 141 00:10:20,680 --> 00:10:25,320 D could take in the six newborns and nurse them. 142 00:10:25,320 --> 00:10:29,800 Obviously it's never ideal to wean puppies that young but they don't have to stay with 143 00:10:29,800 --> 00:10:31,760 their moms just for food. 144 00:10:31,760 --> 00:10:35,680 They learn a lot from their moms and their litter mates and it helps them be better dogs 145 00:10:35,680 --> 00:10:37,240 when they grow up. 146 00:10:37,240 --> 00:10:42,360 So they were still getting all of that with me at my house from my mama dog and their 147 00:10:42,360 --> 00:10:45,000 11 new litter mates. 148 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:48,520 They were drinking formula and they were eating canned food so they were getting all the nutrients 149 00:10:48,520 --> 00:10:49,520 they needed. 150 00:10:49,520 --> 00:10:54,600 It was just bittersweet for us because we hated to take them away from their mom. 151 00:10:54,600 --> 00:10:59,320 We were so thankful though that Mary D took the new puppies in and I mean she took them 152 00:10:59,320 --> 00:11:00,440 right in. 153 00:11:00,440 --> 00:11:04,600 She heard them crying and she laid down with them and started nursing them like they were 154 00:11:04,600 --> 00:11:05,600 her own. 155 00:11:05,600 --> 00:11:09,440 She cleaned all of their moms blood off of them because they were covered in their moms 156 00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:13,600 blood splatter and she was just the absolute best mom to them. 157 00:11:13,600 --> 00:11:18,600 We actually let Mary D have a family reunion with her actual puppies before they left for 158 00:11:18,600 --> 00:11:23,560 transport back in April and she was like who are these gigantic puppies please take me 159 00:11:23,560 --> 00:11:25,600 back to my little babies. 160 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:30,040 So she was not missing them too bad and they weren't even really that excited to see her 161 00:11:30,040 --> 00:11:31,600 either. 162 00:11:31,600 --> 00:11:36,480 She ended up nursing these new puppies until they were almost 5 weeks old and then she 163 00:11:36,480 --> 00:11:38,280 had just had enough. 164 00:11:38,280 --> 00:11:42,400 Her original owners wanted her back and so we were super thankful that they even let 165 00:11:42,400 --> 00:11:46,880 her stay longer with us so that she could nurse the second litter but when she was done 166 00:11:46,880 --> 00:11:49,440 we just went ahead and sent her back home to dry up. 167 00:11:49,440 --> 00:11:55,280 We actually saw her just a few days ago when we took her and her baby daddy to go get fixed. 168 00:11:55,280 --> 00:11:58,600 And I still don't know why the police were even called out to the house where the mama 169 00:11:58,600 --> 00:11:59,840 dog was. 170 00:11:59,840 --> 00:12:04,840 I don't know if they weren't there specifically to shoot her or if they were there for something 171 00:12:04,840 --> 00:12:09,240 else and she was acting like she was going to attack them so they shot her. 172 00:12:09,240 --> 00:12:13,360 But regardless she was close enough to her puppies that they were covered in her blood 173 00:12:13,360 --> 00:12:17,680 splatter and they were young enough that they still had their umbilical cords attached 174 00:12:17,680 --> 00:12:18,680 to them. 175 00:12:18,680 --> 00:12:23,960 So whatever she was doing she was absolutely doing because she felt like she needed to 176 00:12:23,960 --> 00:12:28,440 protect her babies and her hormones were going crazy. 177 00:12:28,440 --> 00:12:32,840 I don't even know if she was done giving birth or if there were more puppies that died inside 178 00:12:32,840 --> 00:12:35,080 her when she was shot. 179 00:12:35,080 --> 00:12:40,840 But these six puppies have had quite a rocky start but they are some of the sweetest puppies 180 00:12:40,840 --> 00:12:42,960 we have ever had. 181 00:12:42,960 --> 00:12:45,160 Now for the singles. 182 00:12:45,160 --> 00:12:48,840 Fox River is a beagle-dash-hound mix. 183 00:12:48,840 --> 00:12:50,800 Supposedly. 184 00:12:50,800 --> 00:12:54,880 Someone was selling him and his litter mates in a Walmart parking lot in Tennessee for 185 00:12:54,880 --> 00:12:56,840 $50. 186 00:12:56,840 --> 00:13:01,120 Someone from Mississippi saw and bought him because he was the last puppy and they didn't 187 00:13:01,120 --> 00:13:03,280 want him to fall into the wrong hands. 188 00:13:03,280 --> 00:13:07,440 They brought him back to Mississippi and they gave him away to someone who gave him away 189 00:13:07,440 --> 00:13:10,120 to my mom's neighbor. 190 00:13:10,120 --> 00:13:13,680 She reached out to my mom and asked for help because she was told it was a two week old 191 00:13:13,680 --> 00:13:17,680 puppy and it needed to be bottle fed and she didn't know how to do that. 192 00:13:17,680 --> 00:13:23,480 When my mom went and got it she was very relieved to see it was actually more like a six to eight 193 00:13:23,480 --> 00:13:26,360 week old puppy. 194 00:13:26,360 --> 00:13:31,680 Hubstone is a feist mix that was found tied up outside a building at our local college 195 00:13:31,680 --> 00:13:32,800 campus. 196 00:13:32,800 --> 00:13:35,800 She was left there with a bag of food and a dog toy. 197 00:13:35,800 --> 00:13:38,960 She was barely four weeks old at the time. 198 00:13:38,960 --> 00:13:43,840 Our chief of police told us that she had to stay at the shelter until her stray hold was 199 00:13:43,840 --> 00:13:48,800 up because he was certain that she was a lost puppy and that her owners would be looking 200 00:13:48,800 --> 00:13:50,400 for her. 201 00:13:50,400 --> 00:13:54,320 After 36 hours at the shelter Jessica called him back and told him the puppy was scared 202 00:13:54,320 --> 00:13:59,360 to death and hadn't eaten a single thing since it got there because it was four weeks old 203 00:13:59,360 --> 00:14:01,800 and it had no idea how to eat. 204 00:14:01,800 --> 00:14:05,840 She told him that she needed to take her home for the stray hold so that she could make 205 00:14:05,840 --> 00:14:11,040 sure it was eating and so it didn't die in a cage all alone before its owners came looking 206 00:14:11,040 --> 00:14:12,040 for it. 207 00:14:12,040 --> 00:14:18,200 He finally agreed and big surprise here no owners ever came forward. 208 00:14:18,200 --> 00:14:25,120 So I don't know if you listened to my story time about doofus a few weeks ago but the 209 00:14:25,120 --> 00:14:29,720 fosters that I took doofus to and then they were like no this isn't working out and I 210 00:14:29,720 --> 00:14:31,720 had to go back and get him. 211 00:14:31,720 --> 00:14:42,040 They took Knobstone when her stray hold was up so much better and much easier than doofus. 212 00:14:42,040 --> 00:14:48,760 Greenstone Ridge is a boxer mix that was found outside our local Hardee's restaurant. 213 00:14:48,760 --> 00:14:58,880 Guys I specifically made sure that any single animals whose names I was going to have to 214 00:14:58,880 --> 00:15:05,040 say in this podcast were names that I was confident I knew how to pronounce. 215 00:15:05,040 --> 00:15:13,200 But apparently I missed one so I have no idea if I'm saying this right but Madabesit? 216 00:15:13,200 --> 00:15:17,080 Madabesit it's gotta be Madabesit. 217 00:15:17,080 --> 00:15:22,560 She is a littermate to the be litter of two that were sent on April 12th. 218 00:15:22,560 --> 00:15:27,600 She was originally adopted out down here by another rescue but then her owner changed 219 00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:33,240 her mind and gave her back to the rescue and they gave her to us. 220 00:15:33,240 --> 00:15:37,560 So she and her littermates were originally found dumped behind a restaurant in that 221 00:15:37,560 --> 00:15:39,400 town. 222 00:15:39,400 --> 00:15:45,000 Hey Duke or Hank as we call him down here stole everyone's hearts. 223 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:49,720 My mom was on vacation a few months ago and ended up getting really sick and coming home 224 00:15:49,720 --> 00:15:51,460 a few days early. 225 00:15:51,460 --> 00:15:56,080 We had had transport a few days before she even left for a vacation and she likes to 226 00:15:56,080 --> 00:16:00,080 go through all the donations that come back on the van but she didn't have time to go 227 00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:03,960 through all of them so she just left them all in a pile in her garage to sort through 228 00:16:03,960 --> 00:16:06,200 when she got back from her trip. 229 00:16:06,200 --> 00:16:11,320 So when she got back they opened the overhead garage door, unloaded everything from their 230 00:16:11,320 --> 00:16:15,440 trip in the house and then they just closed the garage door and went to bed because they 231 00:16:15,440 --> 00:16:16,920 weren't feeling good. 232 00:16:16,920 --> 00:16:21,760 They slept in late the next morning and when she finally got up and opened the garage door 233 00:16:21,760 --> 00:16:27,480 she noticed a dog peek its head up from the pile of blankets in the middle of her garage. 234 00:16:27,480 --> 00:16:31,000 We still have no idea how he got in there. 235 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:34,560 Someone might have opened their little garage door in the middle of the night and dumped 236 00:16:34,560 --> 00:16:39,320 him in there which seems very risky and very unlikely to me. 237 00:16:39,320 --> 00:16:44,160 Or he just wandered in while they were carrying everything inside that night and they just 238 00:16:44,160 --> 00:16:47,440 accidentally locked him in there all night. 239 00:16:47,440 --> 00:16:53,440 Either way he was in there for over 12 hours and he didn't make a peep that whole night. 240 00:16:53,440 --> 00:16:55,440 No accidents either. 241 00:16:55,440 --> 00:17:04,040 My mother was convinced he had an owner and literally drove him all over her neighborhood 242 00:17:04,040 --> 00:17:08,720 area going door to door asking if anyone recognized him. 243 00:17:08,720 --> 00:17:12,560 And a lot of people did recognize him and they said they had seen him wandering around 244 00:17:12,560 --> 00:17:14,280 for weeks. 245 00:17:14,280 --> 00:17:19,160 She ended up going on another vacation a few weeks later and usually we time our vacations 246 00:17:19,160 --> 00:17:24,240 better and we watch each other's fosters when the other one is gone but we both ended 247 00:17:24,240 --> 00:17:27,000 up being gone the same week this time. 248 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:32,320 So she lined up people to come three times a day to her house to sit with Hank and pet 249 00:17:32,320 --> 00:17:37,960 Hank and brush Hank so that he wouldn't wander away while she was gone. 250 00:17:37,960 --> 00:17:43,200 So the day they're coming home she got up extra early and she hurried home because she 251 00:17:43,200 --> 00:17:46,560 was so excited to see him after being gone for five days. 252 00:17:46,560 --> 00:17:51,560 She saw Hank on her nanny camera just a few hours before she got home. 253 00:17:51,560 --> 00:17:54,320 By the time she got there he was gone. 254 00:17:54,320 --> 00:17:59,800 She looked all over for him for days and he had totally vanished. 255 00:17:59,800 --> 00:18:03,840 We had just gotten used to the idea that he had just wandered back wherever he came from 256 00:18:03,840 --> 00:18:10,160 and we would never see him again when we got tagged in a post by a fellow rescuers daughter. 257 00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:16,160 He had wandered up to her house several, I mean several miles away and she was looking 258 00:18:16,160 --> 00:18:18,160 for his owners. 259 00:18:18,160 --> 00:18:24,240 And because my mom had made so many Facebook posts herself weeks ago looking for his real 260 00:18:24,240 --> 00:18:29,520 owners everyone was tagging us because they thought my mom was the owner and that they 261 00:18:29,520 --> 00:18:33,200 were like reuniting a lost dog with its owner. 262 00:18:33,200 --> 00:18:35,880 So she went back and got him anyways. 263 00:18:35,880 --> 00:18:41,160 And then she finally came to the realization that he did not have an owner after that. 264 00:18:41,160 --> 00:18:47,360 We had also discovered before she went on vacation that he had been hit by a car a while 265 00:18:47,360 --> 00:18:50,640 ago and had an old injury to his back leg. 266 00:18:50,640 --> 00:18:55,560 He was also heartworm positive and he had a terrible ear infection. 267 00:18:55,560 --> 00:19:00,040 So definitely not our best pull but we didn't really pull this one. 268 00:19:00,040 --> 00:19:02,640 He made us take him. 269 00:19:02,640 --> 00:19:06,040 And when he thought we had left him and we weren't going to send him up north he went 270 00:19:06,040 --> 00:19:10,440 to another rescuers house ironically. 271 00:19:10,440 --> 00:19:17,560 As for our cats the W and the L mamas and their litterers are from our new rescue partners 272 00:19:17,560 --> 00:19:19,400 here in Alabama. 273 00:19:19,400 --> 00:19:23,200 Both mamas were picked up ashtrays with their newborn kittens. 274 00:19:23,200 --> 00:19:28,200 The R litter of two kittens wandered up to someone's house and their dog was trying to 275 00:19:28,200 --> 00:19:31,360 kill them so they asked if we could take them. 276 00:19:31,360 --> 00:19:35,280 The I litter of two is actually not a litter. 277 00:19:35,280 --> 00:19:40,000 They're actually just both singles but they've been fostered together for so long that I went 278 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:43,720 ahead and just made them one litter because they love each other. 279 00:19:43,720 --> 00:19:48,040 The orange kitten was found outside a theater when my mom went to see a play. 280 00:19:48,040 --> 00:19:51,360 This was back in like March. 281 00:19:51,360 --> 00:19:56,360 And then the black kitten was posted on Facebook by another rescue when it was found in someone's 282 00:19:56,360 --> 00:20:02,880 yard with super gunky eyes and we picked it up from a vet when it was dropped off there. 283 00:20:02,880 --> 00:20:08,400 Duncan Ridge was found on the side of the road and posted on Facebook with a sister. 284 00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:13,400 Both were given away but Duncan's home ended up not working out so she reached back out 285 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:18,720 to us when we had originally offered to take them and asked if we would still take Duncan. 286 00:20:18,720 --> 00:20:23,920 And here we go again with another name that I am not confident how to pronounce. 287 00:20:23,920 --> 00:20:24,920 Allegheny? 288 00:20:24,920 --> 00:20:25,920 Allegheny? 289 00:20:25,920 --> 00:20:26,920 Allegheny. 290 00:20:26,920 --> 00:20:29,280 I feel like it's Allegheny. 291 00:20:29,280 --> 00:20:35,080 Anyways, the A kitten was found thrown out with its whole litter. 292 00:20:35,080 --> 00:20:39,480 Duncan stopped and picked them all up to take home and bottle feed them but did not take 293 00:20:39,480 --> 00:20:40,480 this one. 294 00:20:40,480 --> 00:20:46,560 I don't know if they didn't see him or if he wasn't cute to them so they only took 295 00:20:46,560 --> 00:20:48,320 the cute ones and left him behind. 296 00:20:48,320 --> 00:20:50,440 I have no idea. 297 00:20:50,440 --> 00:20:54,480 But someone else reached out to a shelter in Tennessee to see if they would take him 298 00:20:54,480 --> 00:20:59,540 but because he was found in Mississippi they directed her to us and we had someone bottle 299 00:20:59,540 --> 00:21:01,240 feed him. 300 00:21:01,240 --> 00:21:08,440 And with that, that is all of the background stories for all 54 critters on this transport. 301 00:21:08,440 --> 00:21:13,640 I'm so sorry that it has been so inconsistent the past two weeks but we've got another 302 00:21:13,640 --> 00:21:19,320 transport this Wednesday like just a few days away and I've got lots of crazy stories 303 00:21:19,320 --> 00:21:26,240 on that one and then I've got a super great oldie but a goodie story to tell you the next 304 00:21:26,240 --> 00:21:27,240 week. 305 00:21:27,240 --> 00:21:32,880 But until then, I'm gonna go take care of some sick puppies. 306 00:21:32,880 --> 00:21:58,280 It's a rough life but someone's gotta do it.