ButPuppy Bowl XVII which can be seen Sunday at 2 p.m.
ET on Discovery+ and Animal Planet, complete with a kitten-centric halftime show will tackle some of that disappointment.
These segments were just filmed, so the animals will be available to adopt.

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They were then transported to Iowa."
He is currently in a foster home until he is adopted."

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Her arrival at Helen Woodward Animal Center gives her a second chance at finding a forever home."
They were running in the road and then onto someone’s property who luckily gathered them up."
They tried to return her to breeder and were unable.

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They contacted Double J Dog Ranch to turn her over."
As it turns out, Nina was pregnant with puppies.
From there, she had the rest of her litter six in total."

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She was picked up by animal control and a Houston city pound.
Shaggy Dog Rescue gave her her freedom ride and saved her, and in doing so saved the puppies.
We tried to catch mom that night by using them as ‘bait’ but no luck.

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We pulled them inside around midnight, and the rest was history."
A kind neighbor found them and collected them up one-by-one.
Orion was first because he was the runt very tiny, very sick, and very thin.

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