
Some trim bitches will keep their condition a secret until by around 7 weeks, you SEE the puppies moving around. I usually knew, by how they were acting, whether mine had taken or not, but even at 5 weeks, not necessarily. On the other hand I had one who was big at 5 weeks, but got no bigger. She produced 2 puppies and I'm fairly sure may have reabsorbed. Which is why I never bothered with scanning. It only confirms or not, a pregnancy at the time of the scan. Not that they will carry what shows up, to term. And with mine, the vulva didn't go back to how it was even if they'd had a few seasons before being mated, if pregnant.