Whelping Pens

After breeding two dogs in Wasabi, the mother dog will give birth at 12am central standard time. Upon the mother dog giving birth, you will see under your Litters tab on your Kennels page that a whelping pen has been created for you. This whelping pen will house your newly born puppies until they have reached the age they can be away from their mother. Each mother dog can have from 1-4 puppies on basic accounts and they age out of the whelping pens and into adulthood in about a week in real time.

While in the whelping pen, their mother will feed and groom them and their littermates will play with them, so you will not need to provide food, grooming items, or toys for the puppies. However, you can choose to vaccinate your puppies, perform genetic testing, spay/neuter the puppy, socialize the puppies to various situations, give them their nicknames, and select the puppy's sale status.

## Puppy Status

To select your puppy's status, use the dropdown underneath each puppy image in the Whelping Pens. You will have the option to Set As Keeper, Set for Reserve, or Sell to Pet Shop.

Setting your puppy as a **keeper** means you are saving that puppy for yourself and it lets other players know not to message you about possible purchase of this puppy and that you intend to keep it. It also will make the puppy's name appear under your "Reserved Puppies" section of your Litters tab. If you don't set the status of each puppy and leave it blank, you will still receive all unsold puppies in your kennel when they age out of the Whelping Pen.

Setting your puppy to **Set for Reserve** will make the puppy appear for sale to other players. This is called reserving because the puppy will still need to stay with its mother until it ages out of the kennel. Upon aging out of the whelping pen, a reserved puppy will able in the purchasing player's kennel. While it is a puppy, it will still appear in the Whelping Pen of the player who bred them. Reserving a puppy will make it appears under your "Reserved Puppies" section of your Litters tab, so you can access all reserved puppies quickly. Once you reserve a puppy from another player, you will take over the puppy's socialization, can change the puppy's name, and can edit the puppy's medical services like vaccines, spay/neuter, and genetic testing.

Setting your puppy's status to **Sell to Pet Shop** will sell the puppy directly to the pet shop instantly. When a puppy goes to the pet shop, it can be adopted by other players in the game, however they will not know you bred the dog until they have adopted it from the pet shop. The pet shop awards various bonuses for different puppy traits. The pet shop will pay more for puppies that are not common colors for their breed, puppies that are a breed with a low population in the game, socialization being over 50% for all socialization skills, whether the puppy has vaccines or genetic testing, and are free of genetic disorders. Upon selling to the pet shop, the puppy will disappear from your whelping pen since you will no longer be able to make any changes to this puppy.

## Naming Your Puppy and Litter

You will be able to give your puppies' nicknames while they are in the whelping pen as long as they haven't been reserved by another player or sold to the pet shop. The game will only allow for you to set a nickname for puppies at this stage. When they age out of the whelping pen, they can be given their Registered Name.

You can also name your litter so, you can organize your litters better. This can be done by clicking the Edit Litter button on the left-hand side of the Whelping Pen and entering your desired name, then saving it.

## Socialization

While your puppies are in the Whelping Pen, each puppy can be socialized ten times per day. You can socialize a puppy every thirty minutes until you reach your socialization limit for that puppy that day. This is the easiest time to socialize your dog because once they are adults, the process of improving their socialization stats is much slower. Socialization is a double-edge sword and when socializing your puppies, you could have both good and bad effects on their individual socialization stats.

When socializing, the Socialize options with more affected stats are considered riskier because all of those stats could lower at once if the dog has a bad interaction, but they could also pay off and all be raised too. You can play it safe by selecting Socialize option that only affect one stat at a time too.

Below is a chart of what each Socialize option could affect when selecting to apply it to your puppy. Do not expand the chart if you want this information to be secret.