AIREDALE terrier Georgie Girl has surprised owners Rowena and Jon Tyacke and their 12-year-old son Oliver by producing ten healthy puppies.

And they are probably the only puppies who star on their own website www.airedalepuppies.co.uk.

It was set up by a neighbour so that people can follow the progress of the teeny ten born last month.

Mr and Mrs Tyacke, of Marlborough, had been expecting four, or possibly five puppies like four-year-old Georgie Girl named after the Seekers hit song produced with her first litter two years ago.

She began whelping some time before Mrs Tyacke went downstairs at 7am to find two puppies already born and a third on the way. By 11am the proud mum had ten puppies all clamouring for feed.

Although Georgie Girl could probably have managed to feed the pups, Mrs Tyacke got up in the middle of the night every day for a fortnight to give them a top up of bottled milk.

Their father is the British, American and Italian champion Captain Fantastic, who certainly lived up to his name with his profuse progeny.

Childminder Mrs Tyacke, who has been breeding Airedales for 14 years, said: "Ten puppies is unusual for an Airedale but not unheard of. Six to seven is an average."

She said Georgie Girl had been one of a litter of 11 and added that as she had been such a good mum she would be saved the prospect of further litters. "This is her last, we think she has done her bit for the Airedale population," she said.

Some of the puppies, worth £500 each, are already reserved and Mrs Tyacke said the family will be sad when the last one goes.

They kept one of Georgie Girl's first litter, Anna, who has been a very active nursemaid helping keep the ten new arrivals in order.

Any visitors to the house on the Ogbourne road are warned that shoelaces or trouser turn-ups are likely to be chewed by ten eager mouths with sharp teeth.