Animals Anecdotes 13 : Baby sitting is a tedious, dirty job

If you have been following on my Animals Anecdotes series, I'd mentioned about the newborn puppies - four tiny 2 weeks old puppies. It turned out that Silver, the mum of these puppies past away about a week after her litters were born. Silver was suspected to be bitten by a venomous snake because the evening before her body was found under the cabin, the pack of dogs went on a crazy rampage of killing and ripping apart a pretty big snake. The very next day, Silver didn't make it to care after her little ones.

Out of great sympathy, we began bottle feeding the four puppies and later on, we brought them home since they need to be fed rather constantly, somewhere about 4-5 times a day. I was never good with taking care after animals because I guess it's just not my forte. The worse part about baby sitting be it for animals or humans alike is when it comes to them pooping and peeing. At one point of baby sitting, one of the puppies went on a little diarrhea and the poop was watery. Since he is white in color, the poor little thing looked yellow from the top of the head to the neck area, immensely drenched in his own discharge. Thank God for baby wipes but only after a good scrubbing with warm cloth later, the puppy looked slightly back to his own skin color. If I had to keep them much longer, each one of them would have gone some thorough bathing.

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Since it was rather inconvenient for us to keep up with four puppies and we don't really have the time and space for them not forgetting that at that moment, we couldn't find anyone who wanted to adopt them, we resorted to send them to the vet and see what the vet may suggests to do with them. Thankfully, the vet has a big heart and offered to keep them for a while and will ask around from his friends if they will be interested to take those puppies. That is really good news for everyone and also the puppies are said to be in a healthy condition. All we could hope for now is that the four of them will grow up happy and healthy.