I am fostering a sweet Boxer-mix dog who was abandoned to live on the street and condemned to have litter after litter. Well, that’s gonna stop soon (when she gets spayed).
Over the weekend, Belinda gave birth to seven puppies, four girls and three boys. Pix here: Belinda’s puppies.
I will be socializing the pups using Battaglia’s “SuperDog” method (note: pdf) and incorporating Schaap’s “Rule of Sevens” techniques.
If you’re looking for a happy, healthy and well-socialized pup who will be ready for his or her new home right after Thanksgiving, you know where to find me. FWIW, we expect the pups to be short-haired and weigh about 50 pounds when full grown.
[Canadian]Next week seems a little early to send them home, eh?[/Canadian]
They are so cute! I wish I could have one but we aren’t allowed dogs in this apartment and life is currently such that a dog isn’t really a reasonable thing to obtain. Good luck finding them homes and thanks for fostering!
I would love to have one, but I can’t provide for a dog in any way right now. Thanks for the pictures, they brightened my day. I hope you find good homes for them (and watch out for creeps who want holiday pets for their kids).
A good picture of Belinda herself might help viewers get a vague idea what to expect, although the father is unknown.
I would take one – who am I kidding – I would take them all if we weren’t already up to our eyeballs in pets.
Haven’t read the .pdf, but the rule of sevens link looks like a good idea.
Keep us updated on their fates – and do yourself a favor and take a group picture of them all in a bin or basket, and keep it to warm you on cold nights.
Thanks! Belinda isn’t part of the Dobe rescue. The person who found her is a cat rescuer who isn’t set up to foster dogs. I met her when the sable kitty (pictured in my “photostream”) showed up on my doorstep and she helped me rescue him.
Yup, I’ve racked up lots of highway miles doing that, too.
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We’re definitely aware of this potential problem. We will be “advertising” the pups when they turn 5 weeks old in early November (but not releasing them until they’re 8). We hope this means we’re getting adopters who want a dog independently of “Christmas Puppy Syndrome”.
Before she delivered, I had only a cheapy digital that takes yellow-tinged still pix, but for some reason, good video. So I posted a couple of short clips to YouTube. I got my good camera back just before she whelped, but she was filthy for two days after whelping (I leave it to your imagination as to why). I’ve been giving her partial sponge baths over the past few days; that is, when she can tear herself away from the pups.
I have my other foster [del]idiots[/del] dogs for that.
We can do a transport! hint hint!
You sick b@t@rd!!! Shipping and mailing live puppies is cruel! Everyone knows that for PUPS, it’s UPS!
Before I look at these puppies I just want to say this: Yes, I am in the mood for a new dog and I happen to adore boxers and bully breeds.
Please live more than 300 miles away from me so that it will be way too horribly inconvenient for me to take one of these buggers off your hands. I’m begging you. Be in Seattle or something. Or Thailand.
Bwah hah hah!!! I live in south-central Texas, real close to IH-10, so it would be a snap for the Rescue Railroad to have one of Belinda’s adowable pwecious widdle bundles of tail-waggin’ snubby-nosed wuv delivered to you!
It’s a hoot to watch their nervous systems develop day-by-day. A few of them can already use their back paws to scratch an ear, and I’ve seen two of them wag their tails while they were dreaming. They also bark and make little snarly faces in their sleep. Six of them have horse coats, with two (Females Nos. 2 and 4) being a little shaggier than the others. But Female No. 3 (solid white), has a definite brush coat. Her fur feels a little “prickly” when I handle her. I’m just hoping Female No. 3 isn’t congenitally deaf, being a solid white dog and part Boxer.
Luckily for us, Bruiser (the resident feral tom cat who has been TNR’d), is very easy-going and friendly and has offered his services to socialize the pups to cats (and how they rule the world!)
Male No. 1 is the largest of the group, so far, and although his body-fur is agouti (wolf-colored) he has a Boxer-fawn head. I like to call him “Carrot Top”.
I have vowed that, if I ever acquired a Boxer, it will be named after a famous boxer. So tell me, does this carrot top fella seem more like a Sugar Ray Leonard to you, or a Leon Spinks?
Which one was so assured of his own power, so that he didn’t need to bully or intimidate others? More of the “true sportsman” type?
ETA: the timer just went off, so I’m gonna go feed Belinda and clean up after the little dears. They’re peeing on their own, now, so lots of little wet spots all over the newspaper. Can hardly wait until they’re pooping on their own. That should be a treat–seven pups pooping round-the-clock in a warm, enclosed place.
Probably Sugar Ray, although Spinks beat (and was beaten by) Muhammad Ali and hasn’t made a big douchy deal about it. Sugar Ray is known for being a real sportsmanlike, nice guy.
Although Leon Spinks now works at a McDonald’s… after beating Ali. So maybe he’s the humble one. Both are, by boxing standards, pretty much class acts.
FWIW, we expect the pups to be short-haired and weigh about 50 pounds when full grown.
