Huge Rescue Dog Gives Birth and Everything Goes Wrong..

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00:00This is Daisy, a pregnant dog we rescued only four days ago. Since then she's met

00:05our dogs, gave birth at the vets, transported during birth, and continued at

00:15our home, and now everything that could have gone wrong post-birth, did.

00:24So it's the morning after Daisy had given birth. She was given birth for 12

00:29hours, and we've currently gone three days with about seven hours of sleep.

00:33Ella is putting collars on all the little babies so that we know their gender.

00:37I've put all their collars on so I know who's had a feed and who hasn't, because

00:41Daisy sometimes lays on her side and they can't get to the other nipples.

00:45Should we try to weigh your puppies? Yeah. And after Ella picked the puppy up like a

00:50burrito, it was time to get weighing. And after going through this process nine

00:57times, we can now see how many boys and girls we've got.

01:01So, Ella has amazingly done all of this. We think there are five boys, four girls.

01:09Wow. Daisy, massive congrats to you.

01:16Whilst I'm getting my three hours of sleeping, Ella, bless her, takes on the task of

01:20building Daisy's whelping pen. We had such little time to prepare for Daisy's birth,

01:25we had to use this makeshift whelping pen we put together. It was not ideal, but Daisy

01:30was still happy to be inside it, but now our whelping pen has finally arrived and

01:34she'll have the space she needs. We included a heating blanket because puppies

01:40should be kept at around 30 degrees during their first few days. If you don't

01:46know what a whelping pen is, it's basically just an area with raised sides all the way

01:50around so that if Daisy lays down the puppies can crawl underneath there and

01:54not get crushed. Now it's time for Daisy to enjoy her new area. Ella led her in with

02:01the puppy and then went on to put the other eight in there. Daisy looked on

02:05looking very appreciative. It's the next morning, you're in your new pair. Hello girl. Good girl. Oh look at all

02:16the pups you've got Daisy.

02:19Over the next couple days we would continue to support Daisy. We still got up every

02:24few hours during the night to check on Daisy. Feed her, give her some water and do a

02:29puppy count to make sure none were getting crushed. Before I get into the

02:44problems we started having can we just appreciate how cute these tiny puppies

02:48are first. What's that puppy doing Daisy? How's it gotten there? What's it doing Daisy girl?

03:00That is tall. Look at his little face. It looks like an old man. Look at his tongue.

03:12This one's come off. He's also going in upside down. Or she? He? He's going in upside down. And then

03:20we

03:20noticed our first problem. So we're starting to notice that Daisy's looking a lot

03:26skinnier. Almost too skinny. But it's really weird to see her like this because

03:31we've only seen her with a big pregnant belly. I could almost fit my hand around

03:35her back. It seems like she was not looked after well before we got her.

03:38She was also super picky with her food but I had a plan to give her a meal she

03:42couldn't resist. Alright so Daisy here has got a whole bunch of turkey, scrambled egg,

03:52rice, a tiny bit of puppy food that is chicken. So hopefully she won't be able to

03:57turn us in it. And yeah hopefully she eats this. Could you hit that subscribe button

04:02for my chef skills or does it look bad? Daisy girl? Daisy you hungry? She's looking pretty hungry.

04:10Right. Can you sit? Good girl. Go on then. So she prefers the home cooked meals then as opposed

04:21to the puppy food. So operation fattened Daisy up was a go. Everything was going well. Daisy

04:32was putting on weight and she was feeding the puppies until Ella came back home, was

04:36doing a head count and this happened.

04:56I'm gonna stop the sound here because it's not nice to hear. But yeah you could see Daisy actually went

05:01to bite Ella and then went for her. We spoke to so many people about why it could have happened

05:06because

05:06Daisy seemed so trusting. Ultimately there's so many different reasons as to why but luckily Ella wasn't physically hurt. She

05:13didn't bite her, just a big warning. It was obviously still quite traumatizing for Ella. This meant we were now

05:19so much more careful around Daisy and her pups. I went into the room with a pillow in case she

05:23went for me but from now on we won't be going near her pups while she's there.

05:30This brought a number of challenges. The first being we would constantly move the puppies and do head counts to

05:35make sure Daisy wasn't squashing any. But now we had to get Daisy out the room, try and place the

05:40puppies in a section of the whelping pen and then hope Daisy wouldn't lay on them.

05:47And then things got even worse. We noticed she was spending more and more time out of the whelping pen.

05:54And before you say she was too hot, there were areas in the whelping pen that had no

05:58heating blanket or heat lamp over it. So she had areas that she could go to. Honestly, Daisy's probably just

06:05fed up. This is her third litter in three years. She's never gotten to live her own life and now

06:10she's got nine puppies to care for.

06:15And if someone she didn't know came into the house, she would also get really protective. But that's mother nature.

06:21She just wanted to make sure her puppies were safe.

06:33So things were not going well, but we wanted to give Daisy some time away from the pups. She still

06:39wanted all the cuddles and Ella did not take Daisy attacking her personally. As long as we kept our distance,

06:45Daisy was completely fine with us.

06:48We'll get on to how the puppies are doing in a little bit, because I'm going to be taking Daisy

06:52out on a walk.

06:53She seemed to be getting a bit restless in the house. And when I got the lead out, she seemed

06:58so excited.

07:11The walk was going really well. She was loving being out and about until...

07:36Daisy suddenly started to become reactive to strangers walking past. It's a weird one because we've taken her out before

07:43and she was completely fine. But I guess her hormones will still be fine.

07:47She'll be all over the place after birth. I thought she was getting worried people were going to come take

07:51her puppies. So I took her home back to see them, but she didn't really care.

08:18She then was only feeding the puppies for about ten minutes every four hours. She had stopped looking after them.

08:26The puppies weren't putting on weight. They weren't being stimulated to go to the toilet. If left alone, they wouldn't

08:33have made it. So something had to change.

08:37We spoke to so many people, breeders, the rescue, other fosters, and they all said the same thing. We needed

08:45to separate Daisy from her puppies.

08:48Honestly, I felt quite uncomfortable doing this. But unfortunately, Daisy wasn't looking after them. They were not getting the nutrients

08:55they needed to even survive, let alone grow.

08:58So we set up a separate area upstairs where we would be keeping the puppies. We put Daisy into the

09:04garden, collected her puppies, and put them in their new spot.

09:13And then we cleaned up Daisy's area. When we let her in, we were told to give her a Kong

09:19with some peanut butter to help with the stress of her pups not being there. It seemed to work well.

09:28So, all the puppies are in there. We've got everything we need just here. And then once we fed the

09:34puppies, we're going to put them in this crate just so we can keep an eye on which puppies we

09:39fed.

09:40That's right, we're going to be hand raising the puppies. We stimulated them first to go to the toilet, and

09:46then got to feeding. It was going well, and us being anxious parents then got worried.

09:54What? What? Is she dying?

10:01Is she just asleep?

10:04I didn't have to sleep.

10:07You got scared for a minute then.

10:10I'm not enough.

10:11Oh my god.

10:13Are you not?

10:17It's so cute.

10:22And then we realized a huge problem.

10:25It took us two hours to hand feed all nine puppies, and they needed feeding every two hours, including throughout

10:32the night.

10:33This literally meant we would get no sleep for three weeks, because we couldn't wean them off the bottles until

10:39then.

10:40We were already exhausted as it is. We're six days in since we got Daisy, and have barely slept, and

10:47now we need to stay up all night feeding the puppies.

10:51So, we did.

10:55All the puppies have been fed.

10:58And now, oh, we can start putting them back in.

11:02They don't like them all.

11:03There you go.

11:04This was the hardest night of our lives.

11:08Our mental health was in the bin, and we just couldn't continue like this.

11:11It was too much.

11:14About half two.

11:16Puppies are all fed and asleep.

11:20But luckily, the next day, another foster had a plan, and it included this dog here.

11:26This is Maisie.

11:27Not Daisy, but Maisie, and she had puppies at the same time Daisy did.

11:32They were both rescued from the same house.

11:34I'll explain as we jive, because it's just the craziest story ever.

11:40We're about to start a 12 hour journey around the UK, off zero hours of sleep.

11:46We took this video of us, and we literally look ill.

11:50We've got Daisy with us too.

11:52Good girl, Daisy. Well done.

11:55And our first destination is two hours away.

11:59So here's the plan.

12:00We're driving Daisy and five of her puppies to a foster down south.

12:05They're going to be fostering Daisy and the puppies.

12:08Hopefully Daisy feeds her puppies since there will be less of them.

12:11But if she doesn't, it'll be easier for this foster to hand raise only five pups,

12:16instead of us hand raising nine.

12:18We did feel like we failed Daisy, to be honest.

12:21But no sleep for three weeks just couldn't be an option.

12:25And ultimately, we did what we set out to do.

12:27We helped her as much as we could, and gave it our all.

12:30Daisy survived the birth, and so did her nine pups.

12:35She will be getting neutered too, so this is absolutely her last litter ever.

12:40We really wanted to spend more time with her, and she was so good.

12:44But as we felt pretty down about the whole thing, another foster reminded us that you can't save them all.

12:50We did the absolute best we could for her.

12:52So now, we have a four hour drive to the next stop.

12:57And the next stop.

12:59We were really struggling.

13:01We were really struggling.

13:01We were taking turns driving.

13:02I was getting energy drinks to stay awake.

13:05Ella was getting coffees.

13:06We were just so tired.

13:08So we're now driving to take the four puppies we have left to Maisie, the other Saint Bernard I mentioned

13:13earlier.

13:14We're hoping Maisie feeds our four puppies, and since her puppies are a couple weeks older, we're going to be

13:20splitting them up between different fosters and hand raising them.

13:24The idea is it'll be easier as they'll only need feeding every four hours instead of hours that needed feeding

13:30every two.

13:31So still on the way to go and pick up Maisie and the three puppies.

13:36We still have an hour 40 to go.

13:39Really dark out now.

13:40Me and Ella are taking turns to drive, getting as much sleep as we can because we're trying to do

13:46this drive off of about an hour and a half sleep.

13:48So it's a struggle.

13:51We're driving and driving, and then we came across a toll booth.

13:55Honestly, I've barely seen any of these in the UK.

13:58I was so confused.

14:00How much was that? Nine pounds.

14:04How much was that?

14:06And we finally arrived to Maisie.

14:09She took really well to our puppies, and we did get advice from breeders beforehand who said everything should be

14:15fine.

14:16She was such a sweetheart, and you can really see the difference in size between her puppies and ours.

14:22We still have more trips to do.

14:24We're taking Maisie and our four puppies to another foster.

14:28They'll be fostering our puppies and Maisie.

14:31We're also bringing three of Maisie's puppies with us, and we'll be fostering them.

14:36We had to go back through the toll road.

14:40Ten pound.

14:43That's nuts.

14:45And then we arrived at the foster's house.

14:49Good girl.

14:56She took Maisie in, and then we brought in our four pups.

15:02You can see how amazing Maisie is with them.

15:05We had every confidence that they would be just fine here.

15:09And the last stop back home.

15:12Hour 47 to go.

15:15Shut the puppies.

15:17And now, we've only got three.

15:20Three big chunky ones.

15:22Well, one run, but we'll fatten her up.

15:25Not tired at all.

15:30And then we finally arrived home.

15:331.49.

15:3520 to 2.

15:36And we have arrived home.

15:39Three chunks.

15:42Very tired.

15:43So are we.

15:44We thought we could finally get some rest, but...

15:48We still needed to hand raise our three puppies.

15:51We heard back from the fosters, and Daisy was getting on well with her five puppies, which is amazing.

15:58And Maisie is also feeding the four puppies too.

16:01And that's left us with three puppies.

16:04This had to be the craziest couple weeks of our life.

16:07From picking Daisy up for the first time.

16:09To helping her give birth.

16:12The countless late nights.

16:14Daisy attacking Ella.

16:15And then the 12 hour journey.

16:17I'm honestly ready to sleep for a whole month.

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