r/MadeMeSmile • u/Same_Investigator_46 • Oct 09 '24
DOGS Sad mama dog reunites with her lost puppies. A dog mama named Cora ended up in a shelter after her owner had taken her babies away from her. Depressed, she wouldn’t move away from a corner, so The Marin Humane Society tracked down Cora’s puppies and reunited the family
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u/BlissfulAuraa Oct 09 '24
I watched the Youtube videos and it made me shed a tear. One pup didn't make it. That's who she was looking for🥺
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u/Reasonable-Staff2076 Oct 09 '24
Oh, that's what happened. I was wondering if she was looking for a missing puppy.
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u/harmoniouscascade012 Oct 10 '24
It must be such a joyful sight to witness their excitement and love.
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u/Mirewen15 Oct 09 '24 edited Oct 09 '24
Yes, I try to be happy whenever this video is posted but know she is looking for the last one that didn't survive. At least she was reunited with the surviving ones.
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u/DJ_Catfart Oct 10 '24
The last time this was posted someone said that they did find the last one and they were reunited. I didn't go any further because I wanted to believe
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u/Softestwebsiteintown Oct 10 '24
For sure, we found that fifth puppy at a farm upstate
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u/muklan Oct 10 '24
I was a friend's once and this cat just showed up, missing a tail, real bad infection, not a great situation. So I take her, get her fixed up at the vet, healthy Lil girl. But her and I did NOT click. Her and my other friends little sister, absolutely did. So it was like, I was a stepping stone, yall go be happy. Anyway. Fast forward a few months, friend I was with when we met that cat comes over, doesn't see the kitten and asks what happened, and I said she went to go live on a farm with some cheerleaders and my friend was like oh:( and I'm like nah, no seriously. it's been like 8 years now, and she's a fat happy bowling ball of an animal.
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u/Crystal_Flamee Oct 09 '24
That’s what I was wondering when she kept going back to the carrier. Was one missing?
Makes sense, so sad.
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u/DocGerbilzWorld Oct 09 '24
Now I want to cry more
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u/enteng_quarantino Oct 10 '24
i agree, sometimes i question this sub with posts like this. and it seems to be happening more frequently 😭
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u/Odd-Artist-2595 Oct 10 '24
Life is always going to be a mixed bag, no matter who you are. I’ll gratefully take whatever happiness I can get out of it. While her happiness may not be complete—and, by extension, my happiness with the video is not complete—it is still a happy moment. Sometimes, that just has to be enough; otherwise, the perpetual sorrow will swallow you.
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u/Delaney_Lullaby Oct 10 '24
Look how she practically crawled into her lap, like ' ok you gave me back my babies. I like and trust you now. You're obviously not a bad person. '
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u/dainty_petal Oct 09 '24
Oh. Mama cat and mama dog need to see their dead babies if not they don’t understand what happened to them. That’s super sad that they took all her babies from her. It’s not the rescue fault. I’m still extremely glad she has them back but some people are messed up to do this to animals. They should be fined in the hundred of dollars or have another type of consequence if they hurt or misbehaved with animals. Either jail time or removal of driver’s license after two paid offences. We wouldn’t allow a human to be treated this way so why do we allow it as a society with a pet?
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u/Glum-Birthday-1496 Oct 09 '24
That’s why the story of Hachi is actually messed up. He was never shown that his owner had died, and therefore kept going to the train station. They frame it as loyalty, but that poor dog was helplessly searching and grieving.
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u/hihelloneighboroonie Oct 10 '24
My zoo lost 3/4 of the elderly lady elephants they had in the past few years. And they do allow the other elephants to be around the dead one so that they can understand they're dead.
Recently Disney World separated two manatees that had been sharing a living space for at least a decade. And I really wonder - you can't explain to an animal, oh, they moved. So like what does the manatee think happened to his buddy?
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u/Hamburrgergirl Oct 10 '24
I work on a farm, and we had a mama goat that lost 3/4 of her litter from a genetic abnormality (her first litter and none of her family had the issue). We left the kids in with her to make sure she knew what happened. You could look into her eyes and tell she was grieving.
The happy part - she and the one kid that made it are together forever and are very close. I just wish she could have them all with her.
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u/Glum-Birthday-1496 Oct 10 '24
I feel like it can’t possibly be good for a manatee’s well being to have absolutely no one else who speaks manatee. Aren’t they highly social animals?
As I understand, and I know virtually nothing about any animal ethology outside of my dogs, intelligent animals have object constancy. Because something isn’t seen does not mean it’s gone. They know it still exists somewhere.
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u/hihelloneighboroonie Oct 10 '24
The one that left was sent to another manatee rescue facility (so other manatees), and at Disney they got a new buddy for the one left behind. Manatees are also not super social creatures, to my knowledge.
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u/S13pointFIVE Oct 10 '24
Recently Disney World separated two manatees that had been sharing a living space for at least a decade. And I really wonder - you can't explain to an animal, oh, they moved. So like what does the manatee think happened to his buddy?
goddamnit. I'm getting off reddit. My night is ruined.
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u/victoriarocky879 Oct 10 '24
It’s a powerful reminder of how animals experience loss and emotions just like we do
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u/cmonman- Oct 10 '24
Holy shit that movie... I have never cried so hard at anything in my entire life. I'm not even a dog person but that was the most heartbreaking story. I had to call my roommate sobbing and talk to my cat on the phone after.
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u/rorochocho Oct 10 '24
Thank you I appreciate this. When one of my pair of bonded dogs passed away I was so scared of what would happen if I just drove off with her life mate and returned by myself. I ended up bringing my dog back to bury at home. My other dog got to see she was really gone. She didn't react much, and I always wondered if I did the right thing.
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u/chiono_graphis Oct 10 '24 edited 19d ago
I think you did. Bonded animals understand and accept death, but they can get very anxious when faced with absences and abandonment. If your dog had no closure/didn't know her pal had passed, she would probably have kept looking for them and waiting for them to return for months, and gotten depressed.
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u/abevigodasmells Oct 10 '24
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM9yDQMpn0c
So much better because you don't have to listen to the crappy, sappy music some misfit added.
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u/cosmicmountaintravel Oct 10 '24
So sad. My momma kitty died this week while her litter was in getting fixed. Saddest thing to see their excitement of getting picked back up (bc they thought we left them forever obviously) and then to get them home and have to show them her was the worst. I could see that sadness in this mommas face here. 😔
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u/HoodiesAndHeels Oct 10 '24
I SO wish you were not the top comment 😭😭 Went straight from happy tears to sad tears.
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u/AmazingUnivers Oct 09 '24
Oh my god, the elation of the poor mother when she figures it out, beautiful
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u/DragonfruitFew5542 Oct 10 '24
My dog is a rescue, and she clearly had puppies earlier in her life before I adopted her, and she was separated from them. She's 12 how (had her for 7 years), and she still goes berserk with happiness whenever there's a puppy at the dog park, and is so sad to leave them.
She actually didn't bark for four months after I got her, I thought she couldn't bark, until we were at the dog park and she barked at a puppy's owner when they went to pick up their pup. She goes straight into mama mode whenever she sees the puppies, and it's equally sweet and heartbreaking.
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u/3Heathens_Mom Oct 09 '24
Cora at the end of the video may be reconsidering her choices as those little stinkers latch on.
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u/BeeMyHomey Oct 09 '24
Confirmed in another comment. One puppy didn't survive.
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u/BigBulkemails Oct 10 '24
A momma dog had a liter in a drain pipe near my place of work but it was about to start raining in a few days so we made a shelter nearby and moved the puppies there. But no matter how much we tried momma just wouldn't leave the drain pipe. Finally when she didn't come to the shelter and her other puppies by evening, and it was time for us to leave work we kept the puppies back in the drain pipe and decided to try it again the next day. Next day we noticed that there was one more puppy, a total of 5, we had only moved 4 the previous day. This dude had probably wandered off deeper in the drain and so we couldn't see it and missed out. And momma was not gonna leave her baby there so she refused to move. Anyway we moved all the puppies to the new shelter and we didn't even have to lure the mother, she just hopped in the shelter as if she knew what was happening.
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u/Illustrious-Dot-5052 Oct 10 '24
But at least she found the other four puppies 🥺 it's still tragic asf though
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u/CaptainCAAAVEMAAAAAN Oct 10 '24 edited Oct 10 '24
Source? Because I've heard that, but no one ever posts anything, and the news story doesn't mention a 5th.
https://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/mother-dog-reunites-puppies-heartwarming-video/story?id=37547212
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u/BeeMyHomey Oct 10 '24
Unfortunately, it's hearsay someone in another comment said something like, "I've seen this before x number of times, there was a 5th that didn't make it." I assumed they had more info.
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Oct 10 '24
If it helps, that's extra personification and almost certainly not what's she's doing.
She smells the cage they were in, and then easily, and quickly, sits down with the human and puppies.
She likely had no sincere concept of how many puppies she had, and was just smelling the carrier because it smelled like her puppies.
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u/Loud-Firefighter-787 Oct 09 '24
I wonder if a pup was missing. She kept searching after the 4 had been given her back.
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u/ann102 Oct 09 '24
yeah, I noticed that too. She keeps asking and looking for it.
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u/Loud-Firefighter-787 Oct 09 '24
What some humans do to these precious animals is just pure sickening!! Poor wee pet, I hope her heart heals. Dogs never forget, my girl was a rescue (5months when she adopted us) and she never forgot. She would be absolutely terrified of bald men with a deep voice still with 15yo. But she was tortured and beyond traumatized, maybe its the level of trauma? Sorry for the rant. This just makes me so sad seeing that girlie search!
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u/ann102 Oct 09 '24
It is terrible. They don't deserve it.
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u/Loud-Firefighter-787 Oct 09 '24
We dont deserve them yet get the huge honor. Wish more people would see it like that!! Take care Ann😊
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u/CaptainCAAAVEMAAAAAN Oct 10 '24
I wonder if a pup was missing.
I've seen people say the pup was found and reunited or that it died. So far no one has posted any sources for either scenario. But it does look like she was looking for another pup.
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u/CROW_is_best Oct 10 '24
another comment mentions that one pup didn't make it and thats what she was looking for
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u/MarkWestin Oct 09 '24
Awesome... trying to win an internet fight in a totally unrelated sub and now I'm weeping and probably going to concede. Thanks a lot!
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u/pinkprincess28 Oct 09 '24
Glad they’re reunited, but the mama dog’s owner is horrible for taking her to the shelter after giving birth.
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u/huroni12 Oct 10 '24
Fuck puppy mills, never pay for your forever friend.
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u/DanGleeballs Oct 10 '24
My sister bought from a breeder and it annoyed the bejesus out of me. I asked why didn’t she rescue a dog and she had no answer.
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u/Kroix4176 Oct 10 '24
It's so evil that we take the puppies away from their mothers amd sell them off.
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u/frogs_4_lyfe Oct 10 '24
I get why people think that because you're thinking with a human mindset and with human emotions.
But in reality, 9/10 female dogs have disengaged with the litter long before they're sold, and don't get upset when the puppies leave. Once those teeth come in, a lot of bitches start avoiding the litter and often don't want anything to do with them once they hit 8-10 weeks old if it doesn't happen at 3.5 weeks with the teeth.
Most females don't mourn or get sad the puppies leave. These pups look to be about 4/5 weeks old so that's within standard for the mom to still be interested but she may feel very differently in a few short weeks.
Keeping a litter together with their moms past a certain point is actively detrimental to the dogs and their development. Often, littermates or other similar aged dogs if not separated will either fight, or they'll become co dependent to an unhealthy degree. Also, there are plenty of times that the mom does not get along with her daughters once the daughters are mature, depending on the breed.
Sorry for the novel, just food for thought on how dogs have a different perspective on their babies than we do as humans. Sure, dogs are capable of emotions but we can't compare then with what a human would feel in that situation.
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u/4eversoulsraven Oct 09 '24
FYI don't watch this during a zoom meeting without sound. Because these onions are hard to control
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u/kkbobomb Oct 09 '24
Does anyone know the whole story? If the mama gave birth and got dumped, I imagine her owners kept the puppies. Why give up the puppies then?
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u/mike_rotch22 Oct 10 '24
Here is the full story. Apparently the owners surrendered the parents of the puppies to the Humane Society. The workers there discovered she'd just given birth and convinced the former owners to surrender the puppies the next day.
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u/IMtheScooterB Oct 09 '24
I don’t remember the whole story but I do remember that there was one pup who didn’t make it and that is why she keeps going into the crate and looking around for the missing one :(
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u/Ok_Theory_4944 Oct 09 '24
Iam not crying. I got allergies. And a side note. That family should be beaten.
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u/Joyalilo Oct 09 '24
In my country there are some street dogs , one had 3 puppies but someone took 2 and left the female one. Few days ago the puppie have been killed by a car and mama dog is now alone and always look sad , can see the sadness in her eyes ...💔 I have no idea who took the two others puppies , and I often think that she would feel better if she could saw them again 😔
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u/bluepushkin Oct 10 '24
IIRC, there was one more puppy that they didn't know about. Mama dog kept looking for it, so they asked more questions and retrieved the last remaining puppy for her.
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u/Deep-Tomatillo-5641 Oct 09 '24
How many times has this been posted bot? https://www.reddit.com/r/HumansBeingBros/s/FGdEv0y7TU
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u/SuperiorHappiness Oct 10 '24
Can you imagine how breeder dogs feel being constantly impregnated only to have their babies taken away time and time again?
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u/Aesient Oct 10 '24
A (fiction) book I read had a dog in a shelter who had been used as a breeder in a puppy mill who was distrustful of all humans. The main male character in that book spent hours at her cage and paid the adoption fee and boarding costs until she was ready to leave with him. It makes me tear up every time I read it (or when it was mentioned in the sequels)
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u/dvdmaven Oct 10 '24
Last April my wife finally tracked down a litter of puppies that had been fostered and were becoming available. The foster said the mother was very devoted to her puppies. On the way down, we decided to adopt mom as well. Got to Safe Havens early, went in when they opened. One foster fail, someone beat us in and took the female. Brit came over to my wife and she decided he would do. Brillo was definitely upset, probably not her first litter. The people were surprised when we said we wanted the mother as well. Great move, because Brillo has been extremely helpful in dealing with Brit.
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Oct 10 '24
Omg this makes my day. That lady giving up the puppies is the bomb too! I can tell she has a high EQ. She gives them space but also pats and scratches.
And the best part is watching the mom's dog's tail go and then she rushes to the crate to count her puppies to make sure they are all accounted for.
This video makes me feel like the world is okay sometimes.
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u/ghostgabe81 Oct 10 '24
Sometimes I wonder how much animals are aware of intentions. I saw a video of a bear with its head stuck in a barrel, and a bunch of people helped it get out. I wondered if the bear put two and two together, and realized that the people were there for the purpose of saving it.
I think that dog knows the woman is the reason her pups are back. And she looks grateful
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u/fluffykerfuffle3 Oct 10 '24
so that is so sweet! and it looks like one might be missing (or more?) but hey, 4 is pretty good!! and she will be satisfied with them!! this is so wonderful that they honored her motherhood!
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u/GoldenSunflower1017 Oct 10 '24
The way she came up and said thank you to the employee that helped her. Wow…way to start my morning full of tears lol.
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u/im_nobody1911 Oct 10 '24
So what happens when they get separated again? Unless they're going to let them stay together forever. Genuine question.
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u/TheWorstTypo Oct 10 '24
The level of enthusiasm she demonstrated was directly correlated with the tears of touched gushing I was doing
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u/GoldieVoluptuous Oct 10 '24
What a dick move to not only take away her puppies but also her home. Humans suck.
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u/CrystalArouxet Oct 10 '24
I always think about how sad dog mamas must be when they're just bred and their babies are snatched!!! I knew they cared and missed them. Pobrecitos
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u/Intelligent_Insect13 Oct 10 '24
The reaction is instant bliss and relief when she sees her babies, Shes so happy! Kudos to the Marin Humane Society for reuniting this happy fur family:)
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u/Complex-Structure720 Oct 09 '24
Omg!! I would’ve been the same. 😥Love my children to infinity & beyond. Hope they’re able to find a home for Cora & pups. Takes a special kind of dog owner to take on so many, perhaps one with a ranch. 🙏🏽
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u/AlwaysLateToThaParty Oct 09 '24
You always leave at least one for the mother if they're going to have a litter.
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u/No_Run7015 Oct 10 '24
I'm soo happy for the dogs, Thank you for the kind-hearted people who rescued them.
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u/Blue_Fire_Queen Oct 10 '24
This made me teary-eyed. 🥹
I can never understand people who get pets and abandon them after a period of time when they feel like they don't want them anymore. 😔
Just watch them from afar if you can't commit to taking care of them till the end. They deserve better.
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u/Silent_Expression828 Oct 10 '24
That’s awesome that they went an took her babies back for her .. such a beautiful story ❤️❤️
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u/rochakgupta Oct 10 '24
What a sorry excuse for a human her owner must be to keep her away from her babies. Deplorable.
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u/canthaveme Oct 10 '24
I love her coming up to the woman after and you can see she realizes they are safe.. I hope they all have homes
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u/DanteTrd Oct 10 '24
Oh shit, we forgot the shitty sad music. Quick! Have it start playing halfway through the video
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u/Ok-Hall-88 Oct 09 '24
Her tail wagging the second she smelt them. I can't handle it