A Rescued Golden Retriever Stuns Everybody After She Gives Birth To These Unusual Pups

A universal fact is that all people can’t get enough of baby animals. There’s solid evidence of this statement with an immediate glance at social media or on YouTube where cute photos of cats and dogs are available to us with a simple click.

Let’s meet Rosie, a stunning Golden Retriever with a sad backstory. She was pregnant and abandoned by her previous owners in October 2017. Rosie’s owners neglected to lend an explanation behind the reason that they disowned her.

The shelter’s staff knew that Rosie’s situation would need special attention. Rosie’s puppies could come any day and she desperately needed new and kindhearted owners. The biggest challenge, however, was to find a stable home for a visibly pregnant dog.

With the incredible help of the shelter’s manager who had a connection to a Golden Retriever rescue organization, Rosie had a good chance of finding a home. A nonprofit organization called the Neuse River Golden Retriever Rescue aids in searching for new homes for Golden Retrievers in Raleigh, North Carolina. Their main mission is to rehabilitate Retrievers and place them into loving homes.

For Rosie, fortunately, the Neuse River Golden Retriever Rescue had a special connection to a couple who were in the position to take care of Rosie and tend to her needs. The day after, Rosie was picked up from the shelter by one of their volunteers following the phone call. She was extremely close to giving birth, so the volunteer was stressing out that she might give birth before they made it to the vet!

Getting Rosie into a loving foster home would be no easy task considering she was also about to give birth to a litter of pups. A wonderful couple, John and Katie Black, saved the day. Since 2009, the Blacks have fostered a large roster of 2o plus dogs.

On October, 28, 2017, John and Katie fostered Rosie into their family. Rosie had plenty of time to get settled into her new environment. Only five days before, Rosie was dropped off at the shelter and it’s truly a blessing that she found a home so quickly.

The Blacks shared in an Instagram post that Rosie was “very preggers.” Despite Rosie being coy and timid and having a difficult life, she was always a sweet dog. John and Katie were more than happy to help Rosie give birth when the time came.

The birth had difficulties, but it wasn’t anything that the birthing team (Katie, John, and Rosie) couldn’t handle. Mama and the puppies all were absolutely fine. In fact, the puppies were the correct weight and size for Rosie’s breed, or at least what people had assumed was Rosie’s breed.

Besides being a smaller litter of puppies, Rosie had another surprise for the couple who helped her deliver her little ones. In another viral Instagram post, Katie hilariously said that their foster dog who was a Golden Retriever mix gave birth to “baby cows.” And that’s exactly what they looked like!

No one knew what type of breed the father of the puppies was, but one thing was clear. These little pups were adorable. Katie and John named them Clarabelle, Daisy, Moo, and Betsy. This is a funny play on names traditionally given to cows, so it’s very cute that the Blacks thought of these names.

Katie and John Black became even more curious about what breed of dog may have fathered these cute black and white puppies. Honestly, these pups look so different from their mom, Rosie, that it’s hard to believe they’re even her biological offspring. Not a hint of Golden Retriever seemed to be in these little dogs.

People on social media wasted no time in trying to guess the ethnicity of Rosie’s little ones. Theories were all over the place, with some people suggesting that the father was a Dalmatian. Other social media users came up with wetterhound, bluetick coonhound, and even English setters.

Katie’s dad was having the most fun of everyone, or so it seemed. She said that her dad loved the mismatch so much that it was his idea to post the photos online. He even joked around, saying that they would go viral. Sure enough, that’s exactly what happened when Katie put the photos on social media.

Katie posted the photos to Reddit first, and that is where she got all of the upvotes and comments. However, when she posted the photos on Instagram, things really went crazy. Rosie was a sensation and the world fell in love with her cute puppies.

One organization, the Australian Shepherd Health and Genetics Institute, reported that dominant genes will always outrank genes that are recessive, and this often determines a dog’s appearance. That makes a lot of sense. It’s safe to assume that Rosie definitely passed on the puppies’ recessive genes and the father (whoever he is!) gave the dominant genes to his offspring.

People from Reddit were astonished at the spotted puppies who were born to a Golden Retriever mom. Some users even attempted to translate the expression on the adorable Rosie’s face. She looked confused in some photos, and one user suggested she was saying that there had been some sort of “mixpup” (pun intended).

The Reddit user who suggested that Rosie looked outraged jokingly said that everyone was being a “Karen” because having pups that look different is not such a big deal. She said, “Are you really that closed minded???” The comments showed that everyone got a huge kick out of the funny suggestions.

When someone suggested that Katie and John intentionally bred two of their dogs who are in foster care, Katie was horrified. She had to explain that Rosie came to them already very pregnant and that it just wasn’t something that she and John would ever do.

Rosie was still suffering from poor health and as it turns out, she had an infection. The poor sweet girl had to be on antibiotics for several weeks, but she did get better. Rosie was suffering from a bacterial infection called Metritis, which can happen after a difficult birth.

Eventually Rosie became healthier and was able continue with her motherly duties. She was finally able to feed her babies herself without the assistance of John and Katie. Rosie was one proud mama and she loved those babies deeply.

The couple knew they couldn’t keep all five dogs forever, but they found good homes for them. The Blacks were of course sad to see these unique pups go, but they were happy knowing that each dog would be with families who could properly love and care for the growing pups.

Rosie had to say her goodbyes to her pups with each new adoption. While Rosie was properly spayed and won’t be able to have any more puppies in the future, she’ll always have the memory of her four unique “cow pups” that crashed the internet in delight and confusion.