It is better to meet a female bear who has lost her whelp than to meet a foolish person who is walking foolishly.
It look as If the dog be about to whelp
Mr. Harthou wondered why the whelp looked so ill.
It look as if the dog were about to whelp.
To give birth to(whelps or a whelp).
In the collective appeal of the pack the animal first finds itself in the roll of a whelp.
That is the sole consideration which can make him endure the whelp.