A grieving mother dog was filmed digging a grave to bury her dead puppy in heartbreaking footage.
Devastated pooch Bettie is seen scraping a large hole with her front paws, before dropping the lifeless puppy in it and covering it with soil.Her owners are heard in the background sniffing and trying to hold back tears. Bettie was pictured afterwards sadly sitting on top of the grave.
Lenny Rose Ellema recorded the footage in her backyard in Pangasinan province, the Philippines on September 15.The sad pet owner said the four-year-old dog had lost puppies in a previous litter and had shown the same maternal instincts to take care of them, even though they were dead.
‘We did not train her to do it,’ Lenny said, ‘We were amazed when she first did that last year with another puppy. She is a special dog.’
She added before Bettie buried the dead puppy in the video, she tried to ‘revive’ it by giving it milk by breastfeeding.
She said: ‘I would try to take the puppy away but she would not let me so I left them there until she was ready to bury it.’
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Lenny said the grieving dog give up trying to revive her baby after a few hours then buried it in the ground.
But Bettie reportedly returned to her usual happy self after a few days and continued to take care of her remaining puppies.
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