Possible Clues:

• Drop litter with domestic servant
• Puppy initially wants assistance
• Puppy beginning to walk further
• Give birth with anguished cry?
• Whiskey to assist youngster
• Youngster needs encouragement after sorrow, ultimately
• Give birth to (a puppy)
• Women needing assistance, seeing impudent young lad
• Bear, as a puppy
• Any element in the first column of the periodic table, except hydrogen