This is part 2 of a 2 part series…..
I was 20 minutes into my class when all of a sudden I heard puppy sounds. I shot up and yelled puppies. I’m sure my student thought I was being a weirdo. I ran to see what happened and there were two very healthy puppies looking for mama’s milk. I picked one up and showed my student. I think she was very confused haha. She didn’t speak English so I couldn’t explain anything. During these classes, I would use TPR, props, and slides to teach the students.
When my husband came home from work he decided to take Autumn to our local vet clinic, to make sure she was ok. I was shocked to get a call from him saying that the vet felt another puppy inside her. This was a surprise because the emergency room vet told us there were only two. The vet tried pulling to puppy out but it was stuck. We made the decision to do a cesarean. We didn’t want to go through this again!!! Unlike the emergency room, this cesarean would only cost a few hundred instead of seven grand. We also decide to get Autumn neutered at the same time. The poor girl had to go through a very long labor, give birth vaginally to three puppies, and then have a cesarean and get neutered :(.
The third puppy was even more of a miracle because the vet didn’t think he would service the cesarean, after all this time. He also said he had never seen anything like this before where the puppies survived. He ended up being the biggest puppy of the litter and that is why he was stuck. These puppies were too big for their mama. She is only 55lbs and we found out the Dad was the neighbors dog who is half mastiff and half black lab. He is roughly 150lbs.