Puppies, Puppies, Puppies!

Day 1: Road trip!

It starts out as just another day in the world of ABA rescue volunteer Sherry Boldt, keep in mind her days are not quite like most of ours! She's on the road at 8:00 a.m. to pick up two owner surrenders, a 5yr old pregnant female and her 18 mo old daughter. Upon arrival Sherry realizes the pregnant girl is in labor, she is enormous, 67 days into the pregnancy and panting heavily. According to the owners she had been panting for two days. Sherry quickly hits the road, swings back to home base for supplies and her own dogs and starts the 4 hr trip to Harcourt Veterinary Clinic in Ohio. One hour into the trip and big momma just can't wait any longer and pup number 1 arrives! Sherry is now pulled over on the side of the road wondering if momma will let her take the pup. Fortunately momma

cooperates and Sherry is tying off the umbilical cord and prepping the make shift nursery when number 2 enters the world. Sherry aborts the trip to Harcourt and heads back to home base, stopping to take an international conference call and deliver pup number three.

Seventeen hours later we have an exhausted Momma, 12 pups and a slightly frazzled Sherry Boldt. During this time Sherry not only delivered 12 puppies but resuscitated 2 that were compromised at birth, kept an exhausted momma going, handled multiple conference calls, texted and called me numerous times and took pictures and posted to the list.

Twenty-nine hours later and Sherry is once again packed up in the Sprinter and headed to Ohio. She rolled into Harcourt at 5:45 p.m. with big momma and the dirty dozen. The whelping box, heat lamp and dedicated volunteers were ready for action. Sherry got everyone organized and an hour later was headed back to Indiana.

I am convinced this woman's theme song is Born to Be Wild! Just like the songs says...Get your motor runnin'...Head out on the highway...Lookin' for adventure...And whatever comes our way!