r/Awww • u/Soloflow786 • 15h ago
Dog(s) A rescued pregnant dog gets a safe place to have her puppies. What would make it easier for more people to foster a mother dog and her litter?
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u/Ok-Addendum-9420 10h ago
How sick is it to abandon a dog——let alone a pregnant dog——with no food or water? How hard is it to drop an unwanted pet off at a shelter?! I don’t think there’s any hope for “people” who could do this type of thing. Thank goodness the landlord and the people on this video did the right thing.
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u/Alak-huls_Anonymous 9h ago
People who treat animals this way likely don't treat other people much better.
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u/rawlsballs 7h ago
I once found a pit bull chained to a fence that was hidden behind tennis courts down a hill. It was 90 degrees out, no water bowl. They left her to die and not be found. Thank God I suck at tennis.
There was a family playing tennis there, too, who ended up taking her because the grandmother had lost her dog recently. For as awful of a situation that doggie was put into, she was very lucky that day.
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u/Lucymilo1219 8h ago
They’re just scum of the earth! Evil creatures.
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u/Ok-Addendum-9420 8h ago
Agreed, and it’s so daunting to me that there are so many “people” like that in the world and the US. I wish they’d all go away, but feel evil praying for that. The best I can come up with is to pray they all grow or regain their consciences, because clearly they don’t have one.
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u/NoManufacturer120 10h ago
I wish they would track down the people who abandoned her…
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u/Lucky_Leven 5h ago
The landlord would know their names. Animal abandonment is illegal in every US state, sometimes a felony, yet somehow the people who do this never face consequences.
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u/SeasDiver 6h ago
The reality is that whelping (dog birth) and neonate/infant/pediatric fostering can be expensive and time consuming even if everything goes correctly.
And things don’t always go well. A study in Norway of 224 breeds, 10810 litters, more than 100000 puppies showed that on average, 23% of litters would have at least one stillborn, and 25% on average would have a mortality by the end of week 2. Those were pregnant dogs with breeders getting proper pre birth care. They are not the diseased, parasite ridden, emaciated dogs we can see in rescue.
It is a crap shoot. Years ago I had mentored a new whelping foster; our pregnant fosters gave birth the same day, hers to 12 starting at 430 am, mine to 6 around 5 pm. 3 weeks later, I still has six puppies. She had one left, and the fact it survived was a miracle. Momma had CHV (Canine Herpesvirus).
14 1/2 years since our first foster. Other than the first foster, we have mostly done neonate/infant/pediatric/pregnant fosters. 645 have either been born in our house or spent at least one night in it. 97 in our care and 15 more within approximately two weeks of leaving, our care went not to forever homes, but to the rainbow bridge. Of those 112, only five were above seven weeks of age.
Even when everything goes right, the amount of piss and poop you will deal with is insane. Especially when the pups are between four and six weeks old.
One of the most important things to make it easier to foster is getting experienced whelping mentors out there. A problem is that not everyone can deal mentally with the losses that can be experienced in whelping fostering. I have known many fosters that could not deal with the loss of a majority or entirety of a litter and have stopped fostering.
It doesn’t matter that there was nothing most of them could have done to change the outcome. And sometimes it’s worse, knowing that there was something that they could have done but didn’t have the experience to identify something going wrong that could have resulted in a different outcome.
As you can see from the numbers above, I’m one of those who’s taken loss after loss, but has continued. But I personally know no one who has taken a fraction of my losses and stayed in rescue.
A healthy mama will do most of your work for you the first couple of weeks. The amount of food she needs to do that can be insane. A role of thumb for a large breed dog is that she will need her normal amount of food plus up to one cup of food per puppy per day. I have had some of my mamas eating 10 to 12 cups of food per day.
Even with a healthy mama, you need to understand deworming schedules, vaccine schedules, and more.
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u/stormbutton 7h ago
This is both heartbreaking and heartwarming, but as a cat/kitten foster mom, spay aborts are sadly the best option.
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u/FeryalthePirate 11h ago
Puppies!!! What a sweet lovely dog, I can’t stand that people could be so cruel
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u/puddinonthewrits 3h ago
I hate humans so much sometimes. What did they think would happen to her with no food or water? Why take on a life when you don’t care if it lives or dies, let alone about its well-being?
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u/Sedlium 14h ago
Wow! Comments don't pass the vibe check.
Everyone knows to spay your dogs. Can you not just appreciate this beautiful mama being given a second chance by this angel of a person?!
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u/this_doggo 10h ago
People are answering/addressing the question in the title “What would make it easier for more people to foster a mother dog and her litter?”
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u/Sad_Money_5508 3h ago
Such a beauty of a mama doggie 😍 💕 ❤️ 💖 love her pictures. You are awesome for helping her
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u/NopeThisTrope 7h ago
I love the maternity shoot making her feel special after such a traumatic ordeal. So happy she is safe
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u/MinxyMyrnaMinkoff 14h ago
Awww, so cute… I’d’ve gotten her a spaybort immediately. The last thing we need is more puppies who need homes.
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u/neverseen_neverhear 14h ago
It would be easier to find people to foster if there were fewer homeless pets. Spay and neuter your pets people. They deserve better.