Rosalie has this mom thing down pat.
Her 4th and final litter of puppies was definitely going to be the most well-behaved after all she had already learned.
Rosalie is a Golden Retriever that lives with her breeders Christopher and Melanie in Deutsch Haslau, in Austria.
In late 2018, she gave birth to 7 puppies who were as adorable and rambunctious as you’d expect. They’re not inordinately rowdy, they’re simply young puppies excited to see their mom.
But Rosalie was trying to make them independent at the point as well as wean them. But most of all, she wants them to learn to behave themselves and be calm.
As mom strolls up to the safety gate to go into the room where her puppies are playing, they scramble over to her immediately.
Mom’s here!
They couldn’t possibly be more excited to see her and they climb all over each other just to get closer to her. But mom isn’t having this kind of chaos.
As her humans open the gate and let her in, she can barely walk through before she’s swarmed. She has to use her head to batter her way through the fluffy chaos.
Mom gets in and blasts right through her brood.
The puppies clamor for her attention, but they’re getting a little old to be so dependent on her, so she’s not giving in. In fact, she’s ignoring their helpless cries.
It’s not callous, she’s in there to be with them and to check on her pups, but she clearly knows it’s also up to her to teach them how to behave.
Once the puppies realize they aren’t getting nuzzles, they all immediately go to feed on her.
But that is NOT going to happen. It’s tough love time.
Mom starts growling. It sounds like the puppies ought to know better by now. After all, you can’t give in to helplessness every time your youngster begs you otherwise they’ll never learn to be independent.
The growling doesn’t work but the barking does! The puppies get a good warning that they are not going to be feeding right now.
“the moment she barked, I got up from bed and prepared for school…,” joked one commenter.
With another snarl and bark, mom basically tells them to back off.
What mom hasn’t been there?!
She then gives a sheepish look to the camera.
“It’s how she looks at the cameraman like ‘I’m sorry you had to see this'” observed a viewer.
It’s easy to feel bad for the adorable puppies, but they clearly aren’t afraid. Then simply fall in line and behave when she tells them to.
And she growls each and every one of those puppies into submission. Now they’re ALL calm and behaving well.
Those are some high-level mom skills!
We have to admit, it’s pretty hilarious that she manages to get them to behave so well. They all lay down and are completely still. No barking, no whining – they’re just looking to mom to see how they can please her.
One puppy gives feeding another try – but that doesn’t work out very well!
Talk about getting the stink-eye!
Once everyone is properly in line, mom makes her ways around the room to love on each of her puppies.
By the time she’s done, they’re all laying down, calm and sweet. So it looks like that was a successful parenting moment!
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