The occasions of sampling included 6 and 3 days before the whelping, 1 day after whelping, and 1, 3, 7 and 14 weeks after whelping.
Hunts go out during the very season when the vixen are whelped.
A she-bear robbed of her whelps is as nothing compared to the chairman of a finance committee whose surplus has been removed from him by somebody else's precept.
Those of us who have looked after animals for a large part of our lives know that keeping animals involves a great commitment, particularly when animals are whelping.
Old females usually whelp in the den of their previous litter, while younger females typically den near their birthplace.
The she-wolf was twenty-six inches at the shoulder and showed signs of having recently nursed whelps.
In course of time the whelp became a full-grown dragon which had a brood of young dragons hidden away in a corn stack at the foot of the mountain.
The whelps of the (11) fox laughs at wise men, and the poor woman has mixed myrhh, and the priestess (12) to the one who wears a girdle of threads.