Near the end of his service he wrote that when the war was over he was going to buy two pups, name one of them `` Fall-in '' and the other `` Close-up '', and then shoot them both, `` and that will be the end of Fall-in and Close-up ''.

A 2nd century CE Greek known as Heraclitus the paradoxographer --- not to be confused with the 5th century BCE Greek philosopher Heraclitus --- claimed Euhemeristically that Cerberus had two pups which were never away from their father, as such Cerberus was in fact a normal ( however very large ) dog but artists incorporating the two pups into their work made it appear as if his two children were in fact extra heads.

The first of the line ( c. September 10, 1918 – August 10, 1932 ) was one of a litter of shell-shocked pups found by American serviceman Lee Duncan in a bombed-out dog kennel in Lorraine, then part of the German Empire, less than two months before the end of World War I.

While nursing, pups grow at a rate of about 4. 2 kilograms a day, and can weigh as much as 100 kg by the time they are weaned after only two to three weeks.

Female pregnant weight varies over the course of gestation and according to litter size ; litters contain an average of six pups, but size can range from one or two up to twelve young.

The female island fox gives birth in a den, a typical litter having one to five pups, with an average of two or three.

Three pups are nursing from a single adult female: Female elephant seals deliver only one pup ; the two other may have wandered away from their mothers and gotten lost.

" These two confrontational techniques also distract the snake from any nearby squirrel burrows containing pups.

Fertilization and embryonic development occur internally ; this ovoviviparous or live-bearing mode of reproduction results in a small litter ( usually two to four ) of large well-developed pups, up to 150 cm at birth in thintail threshers.

In mid summer over two hundred can be seen, sunbathing on the rocks or bobbing in the sea, and about fifteen pups are born each autumn.

After a gestation period of 44 to 60 days, one to two pups are born in June.

He recruited hunters who killed two dragons measuring 3. 1 meters and 3. 35 meters as well as capturing two pups, each measuring less than one meter.

The sand rat normally has two litters every year ; each litter usually comprises three to seven pups.

Throughout most of its range, the mating season starts in autumn ( usually October-November ) and after a gestation period approximately 50 – 60 days, two to four pups are born in a den.

Fur seal pups rely on their mother ’ s milk for the first eighteen months, and weaning may be delayed for up to two or three years if conditions are poor.

Pups make first contact with the water two weeks after their birth, and are weaned at around 18 weeks of age ; females caring for pups will go off to feed for an average of nine hours.

Females have two functional uteruses and give birth to litters of six to 12 pups.

Females breed no more than once annually and give birth to litters usually consisting of 2 – 6 pups which are born after a two month gestation period.

The two horses broke from the yard, from the circle of light cast by the lamp still burning in the house, into the darkness.

A bullet tore the earth from beneath his foot when he was a stride or two from safety.

A weapons carrier took Greg, Todman, Belton, Banjo Ferguson, and Walters and the others the two miles from the bivouac area to the strip.

While several yards from it, still concealed by the shrubbery, she'd seen two men on her left at the pool's edge.

Bryn Mawr Drive is only two or three miles from the Spartan, and it took me less than five minutes to get there.

A call to the police had been placed from here a couple of minutes after nine P.M., and the first police car had arrived two or three minutes after that -- 10 minutes ago now.

She came from Ohio, from what she called a `` small farm '' of two hundred acres, as indeed it was to farmer-type farmers.

The two lawmen halted their wagon about twenty yards from the door.

Though the four boys and two girls, the youngest nineteen years of age, the oldest twenty-four, came from varying backgrounds and had different professional and personal interests, there was surprising agreement among them.

Even two decades ago in Go Down, Moses Faulkner was looking to the more urban future with a glimmer of hope that through its youth and its new way of life the South might be reborn and the curse of slavery erased from its soil.

The Constitution of the Southern `` Confederation '' differed from that of the Federal Union only in two important respects: It openly, defiantly, recognized slavery -- an institution which the Southerners of 1787, even though they continued it, found so impossible to reconcile with freedom that they carefully avoided mentioning the word in the Federal Constitution.

The only important differences from that standpoint, between the two Constitutions, lies in their Preambles.

But it has been during the last two centuries, during the scientific revolution, that our independence from the physical environment has made the most rapid strides.

They may even enroll a colored student or two for show, though he usually turns out to be from Thailand, or any place other than the American South.

The mythological private eye differs from his counterpart in real life in two essential ways.

The crowd consequently breaks up into temporary groups ranging in size from two to six, with a half-life for the cluster ranging from three to twenty minutes.

So all-important are ideas, we are told, that persons successful in business and happy in social life usually fall into two classes: those who invent new ideas of their own, and those who borrow, beg, or steal from others.

Rather than from a first-hand study of Jewish people, his delineation of Shylock stems from a collection of Italian stories, Il Pecorone, published in 1558, although written almost two centuries earlier.

These ways are absolutely irreconcilable because they offer two different recipes for man's redemption from chaos.

If we examine the three types of change from the point of view of their internal structure we find an additional profound difference between the third and the first two, one that accounts for the notable difference between the responses they evoke.

The size of the litter depends on the species and environmental factors, and can range from two to over a hundred scorplings.

A sugar glider female has one ( 19 %) or two ( 81 %) joeys a litter.

In May 1981, two spotted sisters gave birth there and each litter contained one king cheetah.

Males are often social and may group together for life, usually with their brothers in the same litter ; although if a cub is the only male in the litter then two or three lone males may form a group, or a lone male may join an existing group.

The average litter size is one pup, and there is often a two year gap between births.

Sows can have up to 10 offspring per litter, and are able to have two litters per year.

Additionally, the alpha males of two neighboring prides can potentially be from the same litter ; one brother may come to acquire leadership over another's pride, and subsequently mate with his ' nieces ' or cousins.

A feline litter usually consists of two to five kittens.

A feline litter usually consists of two to five kittens.

The typical result of all this tail manipulation is a litter of two little acouchis in about three months ' time.

In 1985, Koko was allowed to pick out two new kittens from a litter to be her companions.

Small litter sizes when two munchkin cats are crossed indicate that embryos that are homozygous for the munchkin gene are non-viable.

A litter with two munchkin parents, Mm x Mm, have the chance of producing these offspring: 25 % MM-a nonviable kitten, 50 % Mm-short-legged, 25 % mm-normal.

One litter is produced annually, usually containing two to six blind, hairless and helpless young.

Weaning occurs at 25 to 28 days except for the last litter of the season, which may nurse for two months or longer.

The litter is two to eight piglets, with two to four typical.

Penny had a litter of two cubs before the publication of Queen of Shaba, Joy Adamson's posthumous and final book.

Pets. com tried to build a customer base by offering discounts and free shipping, but it was impossible to turn a profit while absorbing the costs of shipping for heavy bags of cat litter and cans of pet food within a business field whose conventional profit margins are only two to four percent.

An average litter of three kittens is born after 59 to 66 days, typically around April or May, although, in some areas, sand cats may give birth to two litters per year.

A litter consists usually of two kittens, but may vary from one to four young.

Pallas's cats give birth to a litter of around two to six kittens after a gestation period of 66 to 75 days, typically in April or May.