The North Bay & District Humane Society is a busy place on a regular basis, but things have ramped up there with the addition of 11 abandoned newborn puppies which were found and delivered to their facility nearly a month ago.
“We have 11 puppies and a nursing mom at the North Bay Humane Society right now and is definitely keeping the staff busy as they grow and get more independent so they are still nursing off mom but they are starting to eat solid food right now and growing like weeds,” said Janet Bredin, Shelter Manager.
“They are starting to be on the move, be very active, playful, so this is where the actual real work starts for the North Bay Humane Society Staff, so taking after them, making sure all of them are putting on weight and developing properly.”
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Bredin says now that they are nearly a month old they can actually identify what type of dog they are.
“They all still sort of look very different in their own way - some are very large and some very small, just depending on how much they grow or what their developmental stage was when they were babies but we are definitely believing they are some sort of lab retriever, lab shepherd mix at this point.
However, while they seem to be getting healthy, Bredin says it will not be adopted out until October.
“These, in particular, we start weening at eight weeks from mom and we hold them for at least another two weeks to make sure there is no Failing Puppy Syndrome, that there are no side effects from being away from mom and still developing and growing properly,” she said.
“So we start vaccines at eight weeks and then we follow up with vaccine protocol after that, so we are looking at 10 weeks at least of age before they go available for adoption so it is still a little way in the future from now.”
