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.
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Hunts go out during the very season when the vixen are whelped.
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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.
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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.
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Old females usuallywhelpin the den of their previous litter, while younger females typically den near their birthplace.
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The she-wolf was twenty-six inches at the shoulder and showed signs of having recently nursed whelps.
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In course of time thewhelpbecame a full-grown dragon which had a brood of young dragons hidden away in a corn stack at the foot of the mountain.
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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.
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