Video: 8-week-old Green, Gray, and White Sox romping with the big dogs
Video: Puppies Gray, White Sox, and Green lazy wrassling
Video: Aurora, Blitz, and JJ bopping around
Five Puppies, Black Lab mix, ~10 lbs en route to 70 lbs, born May 8, 2026, 3 males & 2 females
Background: A beautiful young female Lab mix was picked up as a stray in Stanislaus County... and taken to the Modesto shelter... where she delivered eleven puppies at the shelter on Friday May 8th. We got the puppies and mama Holly into a foster home in Clayton on Monday May 11th where she and her puppies thrived. The puppies are now weaned and six of the puppies have been adopted. The remaining five (two females and three males) have been shifted to foster homes in Walnut Creek (two males) and Grass Valley (two females and one male).
What Their Rescue Rep Says: The growing puppies are doing great. Remarkably calm, gentle, and easy-going compared to normal puppy litters. They play, eat, sleep, pee, poop, repeat, repeat, repeat. We think mama Holly is a Lab/shepherd mix -- no idea what breed the father is. The existence of a safe/secure backyard may be a factor in selecting adopters. Green, JJ, and Blitz are the three males; Gray, White Sox and Aurora are the three females.
We want the puppies to go to homes where the people are around a lot. Would be fine in homes with another (adult) dog and children. Adopting a young puppy is much like having a newborn baby in the home: very demanding for care and attention. Young puppies quickly grow up and become big rowdy juveniles that need lots of exercise and structure and patience from their humans.
Am looking for a new foster for the two female pups "Thelma" and "Louise" who are with a Grass Valley foster. The foster says "They are such sweet and smart pups! Like seriously, they have learned to sit before I give them food. They only pee and poop outside. Almost no barking and lots of kisses." We want to get them to a SF Bay Area foster.
Several puppy handouts from Marin Humane are fabulous reads:Puppy World
Puppy Health
Puppy Socialization
Medical: The pups appear to be in fine health. They will need to be quarantined in their homes and backyards until they receive their final puppy vaccination (~28 August) so they are not exposed to parvo and other nasties. They received their first puppy vaccination on July 3rd.
Located In: Grass Valley and Walnut Creek
If you want to adopt one of Holly's puppies, please contact Rescue Rep Dave at david.c.ely@sbcglobal.net or foster one or two of the puppies.
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