{"id":67531,"date":"2023-10-10T14:18:49","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T14:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordcelnews.com\/?p=67531"},"modified":"2023-10-10T14:18:49","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T14:18:49","slug":"sausage-dog-gives-birth-to-record-11-puppies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordcelnews.com\/lifestyle\/sausage-dog-gives-birth-to-record-11-puppies\/","title":{"rendered":"Sausage dog gives birth to &apos;record&apos; 11 puppies"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Sausage dog gives birth to 11 puppies &#8211; and owner believes the litter may be a world record<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Three-year-old dachshund Winnie, from Leicester, had huge brood last month<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>READ MORE: Dog lovers left in tears over pet named Baby Girl found abandoned on street with a bag of her belongings and heartbreaking letter from her owner<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A sausage dog has given birth to what could be a world record litter &#8211; of 11 puppies.<\/p>\n<p>Three-year-old Winnie bore the huge brood at home near Leicester last month (6\/9).<\/p>\n<p>Another dachshund, Cheesecake, gave birth to 10 puppies in September 2021 &#8211; which made headline news.<\/p>\n<p>But Winnie has now beaten that number &#8211; and owner Rayma Jones, 23, thinks it may be a world record.<\/p>\n<p>She plans to sell the puppies, although hasn&#8217;t yet set a price.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/10\/13\/76377233-12614481-Rayma_Jones_from_Leicestershire_with_Winnie_aged_three_her_dachs-m-17_1696939429578.jpg\" height=\"1020\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Rayma Jones from Leicestershire with Winnie, aged three, her dachshund, who recently gave birth to 11 puppies<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/10\/12\/76377245-12614481-image-a-12_1696939008518.jpg\" height=\"382\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The enormous brood, pictured at four-weeks-old. Sausage dogs have average litter sizes of between one and six<\/p>\n<p>Prices for dachshund puppies vary online, ranging from a few hundred pounds &#8211; to \u00a32,500.<\/p>\n<p>Stay-at-home dog mum Rayma said: &#8216;I was amazed [by the litter]. I just kept counting them over and over.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I was so surprised that I kept expecting her to pop out another one when I wasn&#8217;t looking.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;She&#8217;s such a great mum. I&#8217;m overwhelmed that she could have had a world record number of puppies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I looked online and I couldn&#8217;t believe it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Winnie&#8217;s a natural. She even has ten nipples so she can nearly feed them all at the same time &#8211; it&#8217;s very sweet to watch.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;She never wants to leave them, and if she hears another dog she&#8217;s right there next to them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;She&#8217;s the best mum ever.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/10\/12\/76377261-12614481-image-a-13_1696939016124.jpg\" height=\"422\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The puppies (pictured) may be part of a record-sized litter for a\u00a0dachshund, according to\u00a0Rayma Jones<\/p>\n<p>Winnie was bought by Rayma&#8217;s family aged seven months, when her first owners were moving abroad.<\/p>\n<p>Rayma decided Winnie was ready to be a mum and found a stud dad around three months ago.<\/p>\n<p>A scan at 35 days of the nine-week pregnancy showed six puppies in Winnie&#8217;s belly.<\/p>\n<p>The average number of puppies in a dachshund litter is between one and six, due to their small size.<\/p>\n<p>Winnie started digging and stamping about on her bed on September 5 &#8211; five days before her pups were due.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/10\/12\/76377399-12614481-image-a-16_1696939064416.jpg\" height=\"422\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>When Winnie had her scan, it appeared as though she was carrying six puppies &#8211; but that number was vastly under the huge litter size of 11<\/p>\n<p>Rayma set an alarm to check her pet in the middle of the night when she went to bed.<\/p>\n<p>But then she heard a squeaking noise coming from the spare room at 11:30pm.<\/p>\n<p>Winnie had birthed her first pup, so Rayma sat up with her.<\/p>\n<p>The second came at 1:30am on September 6, followed by four more, 20 minutes apart.<\/p>\n<p>Numbers seven, eight and nine then came around seven minutes apart, followed by a 40-minute gap until number 10.<\/p>\n<p>Rayma went to bed at 6:30am believing Winnie had all her pups.<\/p>\n<p>But when she checked in on her four hours later, she couldn&#8217;t believe her eyes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/10\/12\/76377389-12614481-image-a-15_1696939057905.jpg\" height=\"382\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>According to Rayma, the puppies (pictured) are a mix of colours, including\u00a0silver with black spots, chocolate, and\u00a0black and tan<\/p>\n<p>She said: &#8216;I thought 10 was amazing. She&#8217;d stopped panting and lay down feeding them. I really thought she&#8217;d finished.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;When I came back I counted them and there were 11.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;There was no mess, she&#8217;d just washed it and lined it up with the others. She&#8217;s so clever.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Rayma added: &#8216;Winnie&#8217;s colour is really rare for a wire-haired dachshund.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;She&#8217;s silver dapple and five of her puppies are completely silver with black spots.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Another three are chocolate, and three are black and tan.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/10\/12\/76377397-12614481-image-a-14_1696939047703.jpg\" height=\"422\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Rayma says she can&#8217;t live with all of the puppies, or she will &#8216;become the crazy dog lady&#8217;, so she is planning on selling the dogs<\/p>\n<p>The puppies will be ready to leave mum after they turn eight weeks old.<\/p>\n<p>And Rayma said: &#8216;I&#8217;ll have to sell them, but I&#8217;m not sure of the price yet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I can&#8217;t live with 11 puppies or I&#8217;ll become the crazy dog lady!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s understood Guinness World Records does not keep records for individual dog breeds.<\/p>\n<p>However, the largest litter of puppies ever is 24, all of whom were born on November 29, 2004 to Tia, a Neapolitan mastiff, in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/femail\/article-12614481\/Sausage-dog-gives-birth-11-puppies-owner-believes-litter-world-record.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sausage dog gives birth to 11 puppies &#8211; 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