I hope you are able to find good homes for all those pups-I imagine it's going to be quite hard. I would take your dog to the vet as soon as you can, like you figured out sometimes there can be more pups left in her after she initially gives birth. I'm sure you'd hate for one to be stuck now, it die and possibly kill mama.
I'd definitely put ribbons on all of them, if you have friends that are interested in them right now, they can watch them grow and be sure that specific pup fits their personality.
It's a law that pups can't be "sold" until they're 8 weeks old. How well it is enforced-pfft, well you can imagine not very well since some people still think it's okay to give them away at 6 weeks. I recommend 8-12 weeks-like the previous poster mentioned, because of skills and lessons the pups will learn from each other and the mother.
Typically I would imagine that people would expect the pups to have their first round of shots as well as deworming, but it would be awesome if you could also have them speutered (spayed or neutered), and there are tons of low cost clinics.
I commend you for taking in a pregnant dog, a lot of places would have done a spay abort on her-simply based on the populations of shelters.








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