Lilly & Her Puppies
- HSNT
- Jun 19, 2024
- 2 min read
Updated: Jun 22, 2024
Lily, a 3-year-old mixed breed was found by an HSNT employee and brought to the shelter for care as she appeared to be days away from delivering.
Unfortunately, like many animals who enter our care, Lily had not been previously microchipped, and was put on “stray hold.” Our shelter staff administered vaccines, a microchip, and a heartworm test. They also did an x-ray of Lily’s abdomen, which confirmed she was pregnant with an estimated ten puppies. Lily (and her puppies) needed a foster home to go to, and quickly. After multiple calls, emails, and a social media post, we found a foster willing to provide Lily with a temporary safe haven away from the shelter where she could welp and wean her puppies.
On April 24th, Lily’s foster hero drove from east Dallas to our Saxe Forte location in Fort Worth, TX (a 90-mile trek roundtrip) to pick Lily up and take her home. Within 24 hours, Lily had given birth to eleven puppies; sadly, only eight survived, which is common with larger litters. Fast forward three weeks, and Lily and her eight puppies are doing great! The puppies are growing and playing, and Lily is keeping her little ones fed and learning what it means to be a dog. Lily and her puppies will remain in foster care until they are weaned. Like Lily, the puppies will be vaccinated and microchipped, and all, including Lily, will be altered before finding loving homes.
Fostering an animal or animals for the Humane Society of North Texas is a tremendous service that saves lives. It is so much more than an alternative housing solution and provides pets with a calm, stress-free environment to decompress from the trauma they endured. It also provides pets, like Lily and her puppies, with the opportunity to experience life where they can receive love, learn to trust humans, play with toys, and go outside, among other things. We are grateful for all of our foster heroes and appreciate their commitment to helping save and enrich the lives of pets!
If you are interested in serving as a foster, please contact foster@hsnt.org.
It's heartwarming to see how dedicated everyone is to helping Lily and her adorable puppies. It's amazing how a little support can make such a big difference in their lives. Once they’re all ready, I hope they find loving homes quickly. Speaking of fun, I can’t help but think that if Lily were a character in a game like Funny Shooter 2 , she’d totally be a hero – protecting her pups from all sorts of challenges!
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Thank you to the HSNT team for stepping in to care for Lily when she needed it most. It’s heartbreaking to think of how many animals go without microchips or medical care, but stories like this give me hope. So grateful to the foster who opened their home to her, what a difference that makes! Wishing Lily and her soon-to-arrive puppies a safe and healthy journey ahead. Honduras coffee
That's so heartwarming! Fostering really does sound like an incredible way to make a difference. It's amazing how much a calm and loving environment can help animals recover from tough situations. Giving them a chance to just be normal pets, with toys and playtime, must be so rewarding for the foster parents and life-changing for the animals. hill climb racing
It's heartwarming to see Lily and her pups getting a fresh start. Fostering is truly an amazing act of kindness. Sometimes, I think about the original homes and wonder if it was a case of Bad Parenting that led to their situation. It's like a poorly designed game where the animals always lose. I hope their new families understand the responsibility, unlike those who play life carelessly.