My thoughts are with you, your friend and
those poor little puppies.
How sad to loose the mother.
I think it is so wonderfu that
you were able to find surrogate mothers
for the pups.
This happened a couple of times on
the Akita list I am on, where
the mother was lost and
thankfully surrogate mothers were
able to be used.
I will be thinking good thoughts
for those pups to make it.