Rescued puppies

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When we rescued two puppies from the wild we left one with its mother. She was a poor thing, trying to raise 9 puppies without anyone to care for her. Several of us fed her and we were able to find homes for 6 of her puppies. We personally decided to take home two of the remaining three, but left one for the mother as she still had milk. At first the lone puppy did well, he had all the milk and we continued to feed the mother although she only barked and growled at us. Then one day the puppy did not come for food although before he had bullied his mother and taken her food. The following day he had gone. We presumed he had got sick and died. The mother is now looking ill, her fur is terrible. We are trying to help her but it is difficult because she will not let anyone near her. The good side of this story is that the two puppies we took are now healthy and lively little dogs with shiny fur and wagging tails. Of course that means that we now have 6 dogs whereas before we had 4 and that seemed rather a lot. We had hoped to find someone to adopt the puppies when they had been tamed and looked healthy but this is proving difficult. No-one wants a dog here unless it is a large guard dog. Meantime we now love the puppies and could not part with them now unless someone who loved dogs would take both of them together as they are inseparable.