Guide canine dubbed Dogfather retires after fathering 300 puppies

A information canine that has fathered greater than 300 puppies is retiring from charity work.

Banbury Guide Dogs’ star Trigger, dubbed the Dogfather, has retired from the charity’s breeding program after fathering a grand complete of 323 puppies.

The nine-year-old golden retriever fathered 39 litters, together with one in 2021 with 16 puppies which was a record-breaking quantity for Guide Dogs.

The charity is hoping that his son Billy may proceed Trigger’s legacy.

Guide Dogs mentioned Trigger’s progeny had introduced “independence” and “confidence” to the lives of blind and partially sighted folks throughout Britain, together with London, Glasgow, Cardiff and the Isle of Wight.

The charity has bred from 294 of Trigger’s puppies, and an extra 29 pups have been born of his “collaborations” with different help canine charities and information canine faculties.

Two of his litters have bee born overseas in France and the Netherlands, serving to to create information canine partnerships in each nations.

Trigger’s ultimate litter is made up of 5 daughters named Jenny, Rita, Hermione, Sandy and Indy, and one son, Billy.

The charity mentioned that the eight-week-old puppies have been about to begin their information canine journeys and can be dwelling with volunteer “puppy raisers” for the subsequent 12 months of their lives.

Trigger will retire in Banbury, the place his breeding canine volunteer for the previous seven years, Sarah Bryne, will formally undertake him.

Janine Dixon, head Guide Dogs breeding operations, mentioned his “light nature and glorious well being have made him the right asset” to its program.

“We hope that in just a few years his son Billy might be a part of the breeding program to proceed Trigger’s legacy,” she mentioned.

“In the meantime, 9 of his daughters, in addition to his half-French son Pierre, are serving to us to carry ahead a brand new era of information dogs with Trigger’s implausible genes.”