Amazing story about dog who mothered 7 puppies that weren’t hers: “She came out to be such a gentle giant”

Roughly 3 to 4 million dogs enter shelters each year in the United States. The story of one of those, given the name Xena, was shared on YouTube by Cuddle Buddies. She had a couple of surprises in her after she was discovered in a field along with another stray male dog.

The first was that she was pregnant, which wasn’t discovered until she gave birth. The second, that she had a big heart and was willing to accept as her own seven puppies without a mom that had been found on the street.

“She came out to be such a gentle giant”

It’s rare for a mother dog to reject their own puppies, but fortunately the mothering instinct is strong in female dogs that are lactating and they are generally willing to adopt puppies that are not their own. However, in the case of Xena there was the worry that being as terrified and shut down as she was when she was rescued that she might not welcome the foreign puppies.

“Surprisingly, she came out to be such a gentle giant,” explains one of Xena’s rescuers. Furthermore, after adopting the puppies, she began to open up to her rescuers as well. Once the puppies were old enough to be adopted Xena was taken to a foster home for the better part of a year to continue her recovery from the traumas she had.

Cuddle Buddies reports that Xena has herself been adopted and now lives with a family in Indiana. “I would say her future plans is to be a dog, to live her best life,” shared the story’s narrator.

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