{"id":748663,"date":"2022-01-13T23:33:36","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T23:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/13\/german-shepherd-gives-birth-to-16-puppies-at-british-charity\/"},"modified":"2022-01-13T23:33:36","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T23:33:36","slug":"german-shepherd-gives-birth-to-16-puppies-at-british-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/13\/german-shepherd-gives-birth-to-16-puppies-at-british-charity\/","title":{"rendered":"German shepherd gives birth to 16 puppies at British charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/German-shepherd-gives-birth-to-16-puppies-at-British-charity.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FGuideDogsMidlandsandEast%2Fphotos%2Fa.722200401131213%2F7038449869506203%2F%3Ftype%3D3&amp;show_text=false&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">Jan. 13 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> A British service dog charity said officials were shocked when a German shepherd gave birth to a litter of 16 puppies.<\/p>\n<p>The Guide Dogs National Center, near Leamington Spa, England, said the 16-puppy litter is about twice the average number for the breed.\n<\/p>\n<p>The charity said the puppies, born to a German shepherd mother and a golden retriever father, will spend time in volunteer foster homes and will be trained as guide dogs.<\/p>\n<p>The Guide Dogs National Center said the litter is the largest seen in the 60-year history of the charity&#8217;s breeding program.<\/p>\n<p>Guinness World Records lists the largest litter in history as 24 puppies born in Cambridgeshire, England, in 2004.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 13 (UPI) &#8212; A British service dog charity said officials were shocked when a German shepherd gave birth to a litter of 16 puppies. The Guide Dogs National Center, near Leamington Spa, England, said the 16-puppy litter is about twice the average number for the breed. The charity said the puppies, born to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":748664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-748663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}