After more than 20 years and almost 1400 foster animals you’d think we would have seen everything. Yet here we are with a completely new situation on our hands.
The Little Rascals are two foster litters, born to full sisters, themselves from the same litter. The moms, Tiny and Chocolate, only ten months old, gave birth just three days apart. Tiny had four pups and her sister Chocolate had six puppies three days later. The whole group was relinquished to the Champaign County Humane Society when Tiny’s pups were just ten days old. It should come as no surprise that their pre- and post natal care was inadequate.
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Foster homes are in very short supply so we took everyone into foster care here. Sadly, Tiny didn’t make it, leaving us with four orphans. The puppies are a bit big given the size of their moms. Harriett had a hunch that Chocolate, who had been with Tiny since they were born, would be comfortable with the orphans. The problem was that she’s too small to to support all ten puppies. The compromise was to transition the smallest of Tiny’s litter to Chocolate’s care and bottle feed the remaining three. Harriett’s hunch proved to be correct and Chocolate accepted the addition to her litter, feeding and cleaning him as her own.
The incubation time of many diseases in in the two week range and we’re beginning to see some signs of illness in the pups. We’re going to have our hands full while we try to stabilize the situation and do what we can to be sure all ten survive. I’ll post an update in a few days.
Chocolate
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