Puppies - all over the place!

I had to laugh when I read this report.

This is what it's like taking 18 playful dalmatian pups for a walk.

The world record-breaking litter gave owner Adam Morley a ruff time when he took them for a play in the park.

The spotty siblings, now 11 weeks old, left him all tied up as they enjoyed a bit of rough and tumble before heading to their new homes.

'It was a nightmare, I may as well have been walking 101 Dalmatians,' said Mr Morley.




'Most of the dogs wanted to walk in different directions, while some of them just sat down and wouldn't budge,' he said.

'I got in a terrible tangle. It was like being in the middle of a spotty blizzard.'

The yappy family has now been split up and the mischievous mutts are settling in with their new owners all over the country.

Mr Morley, 40, and wife Nicola, of Melton Mowbray, Leics, have kept just two of the pups, Red Boy and Rudolph, to keep three-year-old mum Button company.

'We were really sorry to see them go. We do miss them and I cried when they left,' said Mrs Morley, 31.

'It was like handing over lots of babies because we hand-reared them for the first four weeks.




'It has been an amazing experience, but very tiring. The house seems really quiet now.'

Button, whose father was in the film 102 Dalmatians, broke the world record in December when she gave birth to her brood of 18, just a year after having a litter of 15 pups,with the average being just eight or nine.

Each pooch weighed about 2lb and had to be fed on a 24-hour rota by the couple with help from their three sons.

More pictures and news at the link.

I grew up with a Labrador retriever. She had several litters of puppies, and like many boys, I helped raise them, play with them, feed them, and had all the fun of bonding with them. Still . . . eighteen puppies??? I'm dumbfounded! That's enough to make the average family scream for mercy, then sue for divorce!



Peter