That photo has been around for quite some time and I have always thought it was adorable.
But let me tell you what it is like having that many puppies.
1) wake at 5am to screaming puppies yelling that they are hungry. Stumble into the whelping room to the REEKING odor of puppy poop, and a mass of puppies all running around and through it because they are hungry.
Clean up in your PJs and slippers, because if you don't it's just going to get a lot worse.
Fix puppy breakfast after you have thoroughly cleaned the box.
Watch them walk all though it and smear it on each other.
Wait 5 minutes after the feeding and start cleaning poop again. Hurry so they don't eat it, (YES THEY DO, ALMOST ALL PUPPIES DO), and/or walk in it and smear it all over everyone and the box.
Ok, done.
Outside with puppies onto the concrete run for a little fresh air time.
Clean the box thoroughly again.
Go outside, wash the run down.
noon, lunch time. If weather is nice, puppies can eat outside. If weather is too hot, cold, wet, etc, puppies come back in after a little while and go back in the box.
Feed lunch. Clean up. At least twice.
4pm feed snack. Clean up. At least twice.
8pm feed dinner. Clean up. At least twice.
You have NO IDEA how much poop that many puppies can make. I had 9 in one litter and I have NEVER worked so hard in my life.
Do not think adorable puppies.
Think MOUNTAINS of stinky newspapers, puppies, whelping box, your legs, you name it.
LOL
You get REALLY used to puppy poop.
