Have you read RubyDee's blog yet?... We pulled her from a high kill shelter on January 6th and after bathing her, we suspected she was preggers... Our vet confirmed the fact and true to his prediction, two weeks later our RubyDee delivered three healthy puppies - JohnnyCash, JuneCarter and JerryLee!
As a rescue, we are known for pulling moms and their litters as well as the hard cases or old guys... The shelter systems are not equipped to raise litters and by CA code, you cannot adopt a puppy until they are 8 weeks old... Many shelters abort puppies or litters (born or not) because they know many of the litters will not survive in the shelter system...
Other shelter systems believe there are too many unwanted dogs now that can't find furever homes, so why bring in even more with puppies???...
While we understand the mindset and how the system does the best it can with what it has, when we are are notified there is a mom with a litter, we generally get to the shelter and pull them all... This was a first for us though... This is the first litter we actually had born in the rescue and all are doing well - mom and three puppies~!!!
