Mother Nature works in interesting ways... here we share with you the interesting journey of Suki's Litter...
Through January and February we were eagerly awaiting to meet Suki's babies. On the 28th of February we took Suki to the vet to have her pregnancy xray where we are able to see how many puppies she had! The x-ray clearly showed 3 little babies and we were overjoyed. Later that day Suki started early stages of labour. Between 9pm and 1am her puppies were born, but sadly were born sleeping.
It is normal to have losses during or prior to birth, in maybe 1 in 8 litters this will occur. But I've never had an entire litter born sleeping and not survive.
Why does this occur? It can be sheer misfortune, an infection in the uterus, a virus that the mum has during pregnancy, toxins or environmental factors or congenital defects. It is mother natures way, as difficult as that may be.
Our poor Suki was confused, with all of her hormones and instincts telling her she was supposed to be looking after babies. But there were no babies to look after.
The next morning I took her to the vet for a check up, all was medically fine.
That night I heard of the plight of a Pembroke Corgi breeder in Sydney, who had welcomed a litter of four Corgi babies that day by C section, and sadly the mum was acting aggressively towards the puppies and breeder (this is extremely unusual). Due to this, the Corgi mum couldn't care for her babies.
The breeder had put the call out for any breeders with recent litters that could possibly take on the four puppies, with that mum raising them as their own...
I knew immediately that this was Suki's silver lining; to turn something so incredibly sad into a joyful and rewarding experience. So I put my hand up to take on the four Corgi babies.
The breeder arrived at our home at 11pm that night with the babies. Suki immediately licked them all over, cleaning their faces and toiletting them. She was immediately so doting and nurturing, treating the babies as if they were her own. The breeder headed off home, and Suki and I had a wakeful night tending to the new little ones. Turns out Corgi puppies aren't as good at finding the milk bar as Lappie puppies!
By the morning they were all feeding well, putting on weight, and Suki was so proud of her new additions- and I keep telling Suki how proud I was of her.
Honestly Lappie mums are the best, their natural mothering instinct and ability is among the best out of all breeds. I am always in awe of them and have so much respect for them as their own competent and accomplished individual.
The Corgi puppies still belonged to their breeder, but Suki and I were happy to be playing a part in these little ones lives. I do wonder at what point, or if Suki realised they didn't look like her...😂
Suki continued to care for them until it was time for them to go off to their new families. With their breeder picking them up and looking after them going to their new homes.
Here is Suki with her babies. Two boys and two girls, one long tail and three bobtails.
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