Ok so Danni does things a little differently from most. She prefers to whelp in a chair, in this case a nice IKEA folding bed/chair. It actually does make it easier to assist, and we've worked out a nice little arrangement where she has her job and I have mine, and she hardly disturbed her nursing puppies as each next pup was being born! At least I came up with the idea to cover it with a plastic picnic table cloth to protect it. Yes, whelping is messy!