Owner Ramona Wegemann said she barely slept for more than a couple of minutes without interruption during about four weeks in an "exhausting" struggle to make sure all of the purebred Rhodesian ridgeback puppies would survive.
She said when she was "finished feeding the last puppy, the first was hungry again".
Wegemann's dog Etana gave birth to eight female and nine male puppies in Ebereschenhof, which is near Berlin, on September 28.
At least five times a day, Wegemann gave the dogs a bottle with special milk because their mother's nipples could never have coped with the demand, and when the puppies were not hungry, they wanted to be entertained, she said.
Internet phone service Skype is facing criticism over its handling of a software failure that brought down connections for millions of consumers and businesses in the US, Europe and Asia.
Skype blamed the problem on the failure of "supernodes", parts of Skype's peer-to-peer network that facilitate calls between users, at about 8.30pm on Wednesday night (22DEC). When some of those failed, the reminder of the network struggled to cope with traffic that typically handles 25m calls at once.
