Was a little lucky at least for now. As we were feeding this morning and checking the whelping pen located within our mini barn we found two puppies in the floor of the pen and not within the the plastic pool we use as a whelping nest. They were a little chilled so we rubbed them warm and got mother and pups situated in the pool. While that was going on she had a third. We let her be for an hour and checked again and she had had a fourth. Shortly after noon she had a fifth. (3 females and 2 males) all are as chocolate as a Hershey Bar. Chocolate Cookie and Chocolate Peanut breeding