
I hate to suggest this but it is possible for a bitch to reabsorb some, if not all, her puppies. We had one who was looking promising by 5 weeks, but after that, didn't get bigger as she should have. Yes we saw 'puppies' moving at 7 weeks, but in the end, and after a C.Section as nothing happened by her due date, and being x-rayed, she had one bitch puppy. I think there were probably more at one point. She was a litter sister of my Ch. bitch and I always felt she was the more likely 'brood bitch material'. In fact she had 2 puppies in her first litter, and just the one in her second. Her Ch. sister should have had 9 puppies but as reported here before, after a total mess on the part of our then vet, only had 4 survivors.