The world was stunned by a Dalmatian mother who recently gave birth to a whopping 18 puppies. This is double the size of the typical litte...
The world was stunned by a Dalmatian mother who recently gave birth to a whopping 18 puppies. This is double the size of the typical litter size of a first-time dog. In April of last year, Nellie, a three-year-old puppy, went through a grueling 14-hour labor. Louise Clement, a breeder from Preston in Lancashire, England, helped deliver the baby and was surprised when 10 male and eight female puppies were born. Seeing all these furballs together is truly something to marvel at.
According to The Independent, Clement claimed his dog Nellie had a successful natural birth, but the puppies kept coming. Despite thinking that Nellie had stopped after the fifteenth cub, she soon gave birth to another and two more after that. As a former nurse, Clement was present at each birth and helped Nellie weigh and distinguish each puppy with a colored collar. He expressed immense pride in her beloved canine mother and described her as “lovely.”
Clement, a 46-year-old dog breeder, has been breeding Dalmatians for more than three decades. Currently, he has 27 dogs living at his house, but she is not worried because he has plenty of open space and toys available for them to play with. Clement even mentioned how some of her furry friends join her in bed from time to time. She plans to keep one of Nellie’s new puppies to add to her existing pack, but the others will be sold to new owners once they are old enough to leave her mother. Dalmatians have a long history of being “training dogs” and were initially bred to accompany nobles, traveling communities and firefighters. The American Kennel Club states that they are affectionate, protective, and have a unique, recognizable coat.
Informes de Metro revelan que Nellie, una dálmata del Reino Unido, es conocida por dar a luz a una gran camada de cachorros. Sin embargo, en 2019, una perra de Albury, Australia, llamada Melody, rompió el récord mundial de su raza al dar a luz a 19 cachorros en una camada. La criadora de Melody, Melissa O’Brien, compartió con The Canberra Times que la madre ganó aproximadamente 33 libras durante su embarazo y se sometió a una cesárea con la ayuda de ocho profesionales médicos. Aunque O’Brien afirma que ver camadas grandes es normal en su trabajo, la camada de Melody fue, con diferencia, la más grande que jamás había visto. O’Brien y su familia nombraron a todos los cachorros con el nombre de personajes de películas de Disney para realizar un seguimiento de ellos y elogiaron su temperamento a prueba de bombas. Al igual que Clement, O’Brien decidió quedarse con un cachorro y vender el resto de la camada. A pesar de la impresionante hazaña, O’Brien notó que algunos de los cachorros necesitaban suplementos y alimentación con biberón por un tiempo para ayudar a su madre.
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