Staff at Wellington SPCA in New Zealand gave the little labrador-cross pooch and his sister, Lottie, baby pacifiers because they were becoming ill from sucking on each other.
Lottie and Hugo were just a 1½ days old and already weak when they were found earlier this month floating in a box in a rubbish bin, SPCA spokeswoman Lisa Snow said.
Ms Snow, who has been caring for the puppies after the SPCA retrieved them, contacted Wellington Hospital after a nurse friend suggested giving them dummies.
The hospital's neo-natal unit provided two pacifiers, which the puppies now happily suckle on.
"We have not heard of it being done anywhere else," Ms Snow said.
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