Texas Family Spends 12 Hours In Car So Dog Can Give Birth In The Warmth

 They knew they had to protect her from the snowstorm

Magnolia (Maggie for short) was found wandering the streets of Fredericksburg, Texas, on their lonesome and pregnant. She was picked up by local animal control, but since she was an expectant mama, she was taken in by Capitol Hill Country SPCA, who quickly found her a tremendous family.



From the instant Maggie joined her family, they might tell she was a fantastic dog, whose motherly instincts were already kicking in with the family’s two young kids.




Aubrey Morgan, Maggie’s foster mom, was a touch nervous as she’d never fostered a pregnant dog before. She did tons of research to form sure that she'd be able to help Maggie when the puppies arrived. “I had read numerous resources, watched numerous whelping YouTube videos, and picked up many dollars worth of whelping and emergency supplies to possess available ,” Morgan told The Dodo. “One thing I had read was the importance of puppies staying warm after being born. If they aren’t warm, they can’t digest food and can start fading.”





As Maggie got closer and closer to parturition, her family was nervous but ready — then they lost power during the large winter storm that recently swept across Texas. Of course, right around once they lost power, Maggie started showing signs that the puppies would be there soon. Her family hoped that by the time the puppies started arriving the facility would be back, but when the primary puppy received 12:30 am on February 16, there was still no power, and so the house was definitely getting cold. “Our house was within the 50s and dropping (it was 1 degree outside that night),” Morgan said. “We moved her into our guest bathroom where we had the shower steaming to undertake and warm the space and my husband was boiling water to place into bags to also attempt to keep the space warm.”



As each puppy was born, the couple tried their best to stay them as warm as possible, but the house was just too cold, and that they knew they needed to try to something to stay the new little family safe. “After the fourth puppy was born, we realized, despite our efforts, the puppies were still too cold,” Morgan said. “That’s when my husband started preparing the car for Maggie and therefore the puppies. Maggie had her last three puppies within the car. We first got them into the car around 2 am and stayed in there for about 12 hours.” When the family took Maggie in, they promised to support her and keep her safe while she had her puppies. Even through extenuating circumstances, they did absolutely everything they might to stay that promise.




While they were monitoring the small family in the car, the couple was also doing everything they might to undertake and find a generator to urge a minimum of a part of their house warm again. Eventually, they found one and moved everyone back to the house. After a short time through, the remainder of the house was too cold for the couple’s own kids, then they decided the simplest thing to try to was to go away until the facility came back on. “We didn’t want to drive since roads were dangerous but eventually decided it had been our greatest option,” Morgan said. “So we moved our family of 4 , our three dogs, mama and her seven puppies 45 minutes to my parents house (who had electricity) and stayed there until Friday!”



Eventually, the facility came back on and everybody was ready to settle back to home, including Maggie and her new puppies. The sweet dog was instantly a fantastic mom to her seven babies, whose names are Daisy, Poppy, Ash, Rosie, Dahlia, Clover, and Aster. Despite a chaotic start, the puppies are all doing extremely well, growing and developing exactly as they ought to be. A dog that's lying down and searching at the camera© Aubrey Morgan “Maggie is so gentle,” Morgan said. “She’s extremely nurturing, not only to her puppies, but also to my 2 year old and 9 month old … It’s been amazing watching her become a mom. She’s a complete natural together with her puppies.”



Maggie and her puppies will all be available for adoption through Capitol Hill Country SPCA in April. Until then, their family will still keep them safe — which hopefully should be pretty easy from here on out after handling all the snow and power outages. Regardless, they’re so happy to possess Maggie in their care, and can’t wait to find out how she and her puppies grow into themselves.




“She really is a tremendous dog … we'll miss having her around when she finds her forever home,” Morgan said.


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