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At 15 puppies, the pit bull mom wasn't done

Nobody wanted Kaya. The pit bull just showed up on a farm one day, and the people there got her to a shelter in Victoria, British Columbia. more

Jesse and Tara took her home as a foster, and at first her ribs were showing. Then her belly began to grow, and fast. "I thought I was overfeeding her," one of them says. A checkup at the vet cleared that up, because Kaya was pregnant.

They expected a normal size litter. Near the end, Kaya got so big and tired that she would lie down and roll in the grass, which seemed to help her back. When she started nesting, they knew the puppies would come within 24 to 48 hours.

Labor began early in the morning, so the guess was seven or eight puppies, done in time for dinner. Two and a half days later, Kaya was calm and relaxed and the count stood at 15. "Okay, we got 15 puppies. This has got to be it." About half an hour later the heavy panting came back, and then came number 16.

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Nobody wanted Kaya.

Two other puppies were stillborn, which sometimes happens in litters that big, and the couple was overjoyed that so many were healthy. "I've actually never seen a dog so tired in my life," one of them says. For at least a week it was all night, every night, and they took sleeping shifts.

Then the puppies found their legs. "They're escaping." They looked like little jelly beans, so the couple started calling them the little beans.

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Once the puppies could walk, they trailed after Kaya.

Kaya was very loving and welcoming, and to the couple she was "an amazing mom." With 16 of them, there were puppy piles.

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Kaya licks one of her pups, and her fosters call her an amazing mom.

The beans chased her all over the yard. Kaya taught them how to dig, and the holes followed. "She was a huge help in exercising her puppies." Plenty of viewers suspect Kaya was mostly trying to get a minute to herself.

At 9 weeks, the puppies left for their forever homes. "I never thought that I would get emotional, but it was very difficult," one of them admits. It was worth it. Sixteen lives were saved, all from wanting to foster one dog.

By then they knew they wanted to keep Kaya. "She's just so sweet," one says. "The cuddles, the kisses." They adopted her along with one of her puppies, Safina, and the two get along so well that one little bean never had to leave home.

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