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A litter consists of the puppies born from the same pregnancy. A whelp is a newborn puppy and giving birth to dogs is called whelping. Dogs commonly give birth in a whelping box, a simple box or pen provided to the dam to help shelter and contain the puppies. A person who intentionally mates dogs to produce puppies is referred to as a dog breeder.
Whelp may refer to: Whelping, the birthing of carnivorous mammals any young, carnivorous mammal; most commonly a puppy; Whelp (tidal bore) in an undular bore: the train of secondary waves behind the bore front; HMS Whelp: the name of one ship of the Royal Navy and of another which was planned but cancelled
A female dog in her whelping box. Whelping Box with Extension Wall. A whelping box/den, also known as a nesting box, whelping den or whelping pen, is designed to protect puppies during birth (whelping) and early life by keeping them safely contained, protected from cold, and safe from the danger of crushing or smothering by the mother.
Puppy litter at 8 weeks old. A litter is the live birth of multiple offspring at one time in animals from the same mother and usually from one set of parents, particularly from three to eight offspring. The word is most often used for the offspring of mammals, but can be used for any animal that gives birth to multiple young.
A litter of two-week old puppies was crammed into a bucket and abandoned alongside a road in Union County, New Jersey on Thursday, police said. The nine puppies were found inside a five-gallon ...
A lap dog or lapdog is a dog that is both small enough to be held in the arms or lie comfortably on a person's lap and temperamentally predisposed to doing so. Lapdog is not a specific breed, but a generic term for a type of dog that is small in size and friendly towards humans.
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The dog (Canis familiaris or Canis lupus familiaris) is a domesticated descendant of the wolf. Also called the domestic dog, it was selectively bred from an extinct population of wolves during the Late Pleistocene by hunter-gatherers. The dog was the first species to be domesticated by humans, over 14,000 years ago and before the development of ...