Video: Holly's 6-week-old puppies are a-rompin'
Video: Meet Holly's puppies
Video: Puppies nursing from mama Holly
Video: 24-day-old puppies on the loose
Video: Puppy kibble-mush chow-down
Video: Mama Holly is awesome at nursing her eleven 23-day-old pups
Eleven Puppies, Black Lab mix, ~6 lbs en route to 70 lbs, born May 8, 2026
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 are thriving. Seven females and four males.
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... They are eating esbilac/kibble mush as they are being weaned. We plan for prospective adopters to meet them during the weekend of 20 June -- when they are 6 weeks old. We will adopt them out when they are ~8-weeks-old... after their first vet visit (and puppy vax #1). We think mama Holly is a Lab/shepherd mix -- no idea what breed the father is.
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.
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. The existence of a safe/secure backyard may be a factor in selecting adopters.
Located In: Clayton
If you want to adopt or foster one of Holly's puppies, please contact Rescue Rep Dave at david.c.ely@sbcglobal.net
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