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First of all, I want to say thanks to all of the wonderful people on Facebook, Twitter and all around blogtopia who have helped us in our efforts to give away the puppies to good homes. Yesterday, we gave three away, and with Zoey already spoken for, our grand total is four gone and five more to go.

The three that were adopted yesterday have been marked as adopted in this post. I have to thank Matt Maxey, Sarcastro and Sharon Smith for adopting Tootsie Roll, Gulager and Bandit (who is now named Foster.) They are the best.

In the post that I linked to, I still have Dot, Jobe, Handsome, Tucker and Helen Thomas up for adoption.

Due to the fantastic assistance from Trudy and Katrina at the University of Tennessee at Martin, we also have a couple of people coming by later today for possible adoption. We will keep you up to date on how this goes.

I wanted to address some questions that I’ve been asked about the puppies here so everyone knows the history.

On January 1st, the Coma family adopted a stray. When it appeared the dog, who is now known as Pinks, was headed for the dog pound where dogs are only kept for three days, we decided to bring her into the fold.

Little did we know she was pregnant.

When we took her to the vet, we realized we were going to be the proud owners of puppies.

Pinkie gave birth to 12 puppies on February 18th and in the first 24 hours, two of them died. The puppies appear to have some Australian Shepherd in them, and we don’t know who the father/s are. Here they are at one week old.

As we already have five dogs, keeping this litter is impossible. The dogs are not house broken and have not been spayed or neutered. They are, for lack of a better word, as is. We contacted a dozen No-Kill shelters who could not take the puppies, and thus, bloggers and friends across the state and beyond have offered their assistance to help get them adopted.

Ivy at Animal Shak even made this offer:

I’d like to personally offer that I’ll drive up to 6 hours in any direction from Nashville to bring a puppy to you if you can adopt. I would also drive out to Charleston, SC or Wilmington, NC, if you live there and want to adopt.

I will be bringing the adopted puppies to Nashville in the next couple of days and any that Ivy can bring to prospective parents are on the way as well.

I cannot tell you how humbled I am by the assistance given to our family and to these puppies in finding them good and safe homes.

Pinks thanks you too.