Someone's going to die for this

Justice hadn't even had time to get used to the idea of being pregnant. She was still in shock, frankly, having had no idea the entirety of the pregnancy that anything was different, though that shock was beginning to morph into rage directed right at... whoever the hell it was that had knocked her up. Could have been any of several males, depending on how far along she was. Whoever it was, he was going to get his overfertile balls kicked up through his teeth. Well, she wasn't going to change her life to accommodate being pregnant, and that was just that.

And that was where things stood when she very unexpectedly woke up in full labor. She had the presence of mind to roll bleerily off her bed furs, because she sure as fuck didn't want to ruin them with nasty birthing fluids and it wasn't like the pups were going to give a fuck if they were born in the dirt. Jaw clamped stubbornly shut, she settled in to get the little rodents out of her body, without calling for any help because she didn't want a bunch of healers standing around discussing her cooch while she was trying to birth something out of them. If ahe was going to be late for patrol, well maybe then she would let someone know. Otherwise, it was no one else's business.

- some time later -

Shaking and panting with exertion but fairly certain she was done, she dropped the third cleaned puppy with the other two and glared down at them. Ungrateful bastards, squalling and punching at her tits after all she'd just been through. Shouldn't she like... count their toes or something? Wasn't that a thing you were supposed to do with infants? Hold up...

She frowned, looking harder at the big male pup. They were all a fairly uniform dark color right now, too wet to really tell anything more than that, but this one had a fairly obvious defect. Around the middle of his little rat tail, the appendage was twisted back on itself - not broken from the birthing, from the looks, but rather a congenital defect in the tail. Hngh. Well, that was shitty, but what could you do? It wasn't like it would be really fixable, since it was grown like that, and the brat would probably have pain from it his whole life. Better to get rid of that now and get it over with. Especially now when they were young and stupid enough to get over the pain fast. Examining it closely she picked a spot well above the kink and reached down with her teeth and snip neatly nipped through it. Sure enough though it squalled and flailed for a moment it was distracted pretty quickly with a tit and she was able to clean and treat the nubby tail left over without any more fuss.

She investigated the other two pups to make sure they didn't have any defects of their own, but they were the normal shapeless bean-like lumps of normal puppies. She'd let them nurse for a while so she could rest but then she was dumping them in the furs and going for a wash to get clean. Ugh. She dropped her head back against the dirt wall of her den and drowsed.