So the story starts with an albino Australian Shepard, blind and deaf (*really* blind and deaf - she never developed eyes and her ears never opened), named Teddy Stevie*. She was a stray, running with a Cocker Spaniel who was obviously taking hella good care of her.
She was picked up off the side of the road and brought to one of the rescue groups my Mom's clinic worked with, who had her checked up + vaccinated and placed her with a foster family (the one with the mastiff puppy).
Several people, including my mom, handled her processing and every single one of them missed the fact that she was pregnant - right up to the point where her foster family came home to find her having puppies on their leather couch.
She ended up having seven puppies - five boys and two girls - and her foster family just couldn't deal with their two dogs + the mastiff puppy + Stevie + seven newborns, so Mom ended up taking them in (she does this a lot).
Most of the puppies were two tone - white/red or white/gray - but one was a solid dark. And as they grew it became obvious that the dark one was *really* different - they had long wavy coats, he was short haired. They looked like Cockers, he looked Lab. They stopped growing at 40ish lbs, he went to 65, etc. Multiple fathers, hurray!
Most of the puppies got adopted out, but my grandparents kept one of the Cocker mixes, Einstein (a pretty blue merle and white) and my parents kept the Lab mix, Conner (a really dark self blue merle - he's basically a small, painted Lab).
And I don't have any photos. Dammit.
* or Gracie. My Dad and I are arguing about it. We're both wrong!
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So the story starts with an albino Australian Shepard, blind and deaf (*really* blind and deaf - she never developed eyes and her ears never opened), named
TeddyStevie*. She was a stray, running with a Cocker Spaniel who was obviously taking hella good care of her.She was picked up off the side of the road and brought to one of the rescue groups my Mom's clinic worked with, who had her checked up + vaccinated and placed her with a foster family (the one with the mastiff puppy).
Several people, including my mom, handled her processing and every single one of them missed the fact that she was pregnant - right up to the point where her foster family came home to find her having puppies on their leather couch.
She ended up having seven puppies - five boys and two girls - and her foster family just couldn't deal with their two dogs + the mastiff puppy + Stevie + seven newborns, so Mom ended up taking them in (she does this a lot).
Most of the puppies were two tone - white/red or white/gray - but one was a solid dark. And as they grew it became obvious that the dark one was *really* different - they had long wavy coats, he was short haired. They looked like Cockers, he looked Lab. They stopped growing at 40ish lbs, he went to 65, etc. Multiple fathers, hurray!
Most of the puppies got adopted out, but my grandparents kept one of the Cocker mixes, Einstein (a pretty blue merle and white) and my parents kept the Lab mix, Conner (a really dark self blue merle - he's basically a small, painted Lab).
And I don't have any photos. Dammit.
*
or Gracie. My Dad and I are arguing about it.We're both wrong!