Dog Gives Birth in the Back of Police Car

Aug 16th 2010

When animal control isn't available, police officers in Prescott Valley, Ariz. sometimes respond to calls about animals, but rarely do they nab one dog and arrive at the station with two in their squad car. Yet that's exactly what happened when Sgt. Brandon Bonney arrived to impound pit-bull mix Dutchess and hand her over to animal control.

When Sgt. Bonney arrived to pick up the dog, the woman caring for Dutchess said the dog wasn't pregnant. However, she was proved wrong when he arrived at the station to find not one dog in his backseat, but two. Shortly thereafter, animal control officials arrived and Dutchess gave birth to two more puppies in their vehicle on the way to take her to the Yavapai Humane Society shelter.

Yavapai Humane Society spokeswoman KayAnne Riley tells Paw Nation that Dutchess and her pups were "immediately transferred to one of our long time foster caretakers named Sue. At Sue's house, Dutchess had six more puppies." That's nine puppies over a three day period of time, six of which survived.