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visual impairment Donation has welcomed an extraordinary “Baker’s Dozen” guide Dogs Because it is celebrating its biggest litter in three years.
To mark the above average litter size, Guide Dogs headquarters in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire puppies Name inspired by bakery.
The boys are called Biscuit, Crumble, Bagel, Crumpet, Rye, Tiger, and Pretzel, and the girls are called Apple, Eccles, Cocoa, Chelsea, Custard, and Ginger.
The litter was born to four-year-old Golden Retriever-Labrador cross Yori at a home in Chipping Camden in August.
Ten of the puppies were raised by their mother, Yori, while three were raised by another guide dog mother with a younger litter of the same age.
All the puppies, now eight weeks old, have been reunited at the Guide Dogs National Centre.
They will soon go to volunteer “puppy raisers” across the UK and will become guide dogs in 2027.
The charity is the largest breeder and trainer of working dogs in the world, with approximately 1,350 puppies each year beginning their journey to become guide dogs.
breedingIt costs the charity £77,000 to breed and train just one guide dog for the partnership. This has more than doubled in six years, as the cost in 2019 was £34,600.
Janine Dixon, head of breeding and welfare operations at Guide Dogs, said: “It’s very difficult to count puppies during pregnancy so we had no idea that Yori had so many buns in the oven.
“She had a very simple child at home and is a wonderful mother. We are thrilled that all 13 children were successful because of the hard work of our volunteers and staff.”
The puppies will now be allocated to puppy raisers across the UK to help transform them into life-changing guide dogs by 2027.
“Each puppy has a bright future, hopefully he or she will become a guide dog providing independence and mobility to someone with vision loss,” Ms Dixon said.