Shell in your pocket

At least beyond the whole almost drowning thing, the whole birth seemed to be a rather uncomplicated affair, even if for a few moments there, Sakana was convinced there would be no end to the puppies being birthed. Each one was checked carefully, all seemed to have all their toes and enough eyes and ears. There was the brown spotty one, a reddish one, a very black one and a grey splotched one more like Gil that were all boys. The other three were girls, with at least 2 inheriting some of their mums colouring, he supposed maybe the redder boy did too? He wasn't familiar enough with her extended family to guess where the kids colouring had come from. “Seven, four boys, three girls, all healthy. How're you feeling?”

“Speech”