CATHERINE THORBECKE
Good Morning America
February 3 2016
At a Canadian pet motel and
foster care center, a dog broke out of his kennel to comfort and cuddle with
two new, frightened, foster puppies on their first night.
Maggie, the maternal dog, actually had a
litter of her own who were all adopted out of the humane society a little while before she found a
loving home. "We think that's why she got so attached to the
puppies," Alex Aldred, who works at Barker's Pet Motel and Grooming, where
the heartwarming events unfolded, told ABC News.
We’ve
never really seen it before, where a dog sneaks out to some puppies and is so
excited to see them.”
“We left work and then
we were watching the surveillance cameras while we were out and we saw Maggie
was sitting in front of the puppies' kennels,” Aldred told ABC. Aldred said his
mother, Sandy, went back to check on Maggie after seeing through the video that
she had gotten out of her kennel.
"She kind of
directed Sandy to the puppies' kennel so Sandy let her in and she was being
really affectionate," Aldred explains, “Sandy stayed in their for about 15
minutes and then said, ‘Well it looks like they need each other,’ and then let
Maggie stay the night in their kennel.”
Maggie stayed beside the
puppies the whole evening long, and Aldred added that it seemed that the mother
dog needed the puppy love as much as the frightened puppies needed her.
“When we came back in
the morning they were all still cuddled up together.”
Deanna Thompson, who
works at the Alberta Animal Rescue Crew Society (AARCS), the organization that
rescued the puppies, told ABC News, of the pets, “They’re between nine and ten
weeks old," and, "A little bit playful but shy.”
Thompson said she was
not surprised by this act of maternal love that took place. “It’s innate in a
lot of female dogs, especially if they’ve had a litter in the past. It’s just
in their nature. We’ve seen it in a lot of dogs even with male dogs, when they
hear other puppies crying they want to console them and make sure they’re
feeling safe.”
AARCS organizes over
2,000 adoptions per year, and Thompson added that the young pups have yet to
find a loving home.
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