Might be a dumb quetion but isn't that some sort of a record? 18 pups in
one litter?

K

"tennis maynard" wrote in message
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John Varigos wrote:
Al, yours is the nightmare. 13 pups!! I am having enough to do with 6.
Can't imagine what 13 would be like.

A pregnant dog I fostered a few years back had 18 - I had thought she had
been ready to whelp for two weeks at least she was so huge ( I didn't
acquire her til then, when she was discovered at the nearby park by the
conservatory staff too weak from hunger and dehydration on a 95 degree
summer day to crawl 20 feet to water), but it turned out she just had
waaay too many puppies in her. One's lungs weren't developed and it passed
away the next night but Bambi (What I called her for she looked like a
little deer and she was a little dear) and I got the rest all healthy and
fatttened up til about ten weeks old when a great local dog rescue group
found homes for ALL of the pups and shortly thereafter, Bambi, too (whom I
would have kept except for the fact that my baby girl, a shar-pei named
TiPring, would not tolerate other females as she had been repeatedly
attacked by others when younger). It was a lot of work but a lot of fun. I
loved just sitting on the kitchen floor with my back propped against a
cabinet and letting them crawl all over me. I do love puppies!