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  • verb Present participle of whelp.

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Examples

  • Grandma would regularly walk up to the whelping box, survey the scene, and climb in whichever side of the box had the hungriest looking pups.

    They Shoot Wet Nurses, Don’t They? | Her Bad Mother 2009

  • Ooohh so your lot are also afflicted with whelping syndrome.

    Fatal Error « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008

  • Shane Brown for The Wall Street Journal Week-old English Bulldog puppies, their eyes not yet open, are kept warm with heating pads and heat lamps in Ms. Himes' whelping house.

    States Weigh Rules for Dog Breeders 2010

  • Then came a moment when she convinced herself she had actually had the puppies she was not going to have and up goes the daffy quotient by a factor of a hundred as she goes off to have the puppies she is not going to have and spends all her time sneaking into various of her whelping dens that she has carefully prepared for the puppies she is not going to have.

    Hormonal Hound 2007

  • Then came a moment when she convinced herself she had actually had the puppies she was not going to have and up goes the daffy quotient by a factor of a hundred as she goes off to have the puppies she is not going to have and spends all her time sneaking into various of her whelping dens that she has carefully prepared for the puppies she is not going to have.

    Archive 2007-08-05 2007

  • At the end, she was whelping in pain, and her back legs were paralyzed.

    RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2009

  • Grandma would regularly walk up to the whelping box, survey the scene, and climb in whichever side of the box had the hungriest looking pups.

    They Shoot Wet Nurses, Don't They? 2009

  • Phenology not to be confused with “phrenology,” which is the examination of bumps on the skull to determine character and intelligence is the study of simultaneous natural phenomena like mating, nesting, leafing, blooming, whelping, migrations, insect infestations and such.

    Fool’s Paradise John Gierach 2008

  • Phenology not to be confused with “phrenology,” which is the examination of bumps on the skull to determine character and intelligence is the study of simultaneous natural phenomena like mating, nesting, leafing, blooming, whelping, migrations, insect infestations and such.

    Fool’s Paradise John Gierach 2008

  • Phenology not to be confused with “phrenology,” which is the examination of bumps on the skull to determine character and intelligence is the study of simultaneous natural phenomena like mating, nesting, leafing, blooming, whelping, migrations, insect infestations and such.

    Fool’s Paradise John Gierach 2008

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