Pregnancy and childbirth – the difficult period not only for the dog, but also for her owner, especially if bough – the representative of the decorative breeds removed as a result of artificial selection. Pregnancy at dogs lasts about 9 weeks, the more it carries puppies, the quicker can give rise.
Instruction
1. The first 20-25 days no external signs of pregnancy are observed, but many owners note change in behavior of an animal – the dog becomes more "sedate" less aggressive and active. When embryos are attached to the internal surface of a uterus, it somewhere in one and a half weeks after knitting, symptoms of toxicosis – slackness, lack of appetite, vomiting can be observed by foam.
2. It is also possible to be guided by the growing stomach not always – if a dog shaggy and bears 1-2 puppies, it can be not noticeable before the childbirth. But at the majority a bough the stomach becomes noticeable already by the beginning 4-5 weeks. By this time there is a pigmentation around nipples, they increase in a size, around them skin bulks up and wool begins to drop out. Somewhere by the end 6-7 weeks you will be able already to feel how puppies move if apply a palm to a stomach of a dog. Colostrum at those dogs who already gave birth can appear one week prior to childbirth, at primipara a bough – several hours prior to them and even during childbirth.
3. Intensive growth of puppies and increase in amount of amniotic waters begins by the end of the 5th week. At this time it is important that at a dog always rather freshened clear water for drink. A bough needs additional food at this time, but it is not less, than in it, it needs communication with the owner. It is noticed that during this period of a dog demand more often that they were caressed and ironed.
4. After 6-7 weeks a dog she should protect, not to allow to jump especially through an obstacle and to play active games that it did not hit a stomach. Puppies, everyone separately, the experienced dog handler can already probe and even to count, but it is better to make after all ultrasonography and in advance to define their quantity to be ready during childbirth and to render to a dog the timely help.
5. By the beginning of childbirth, in 2-3 days prior to them, the dog begins to look for the secluded place where it will be convenient to it to give birth, sometimes boughs the behavior ask to help them with it the owners – cling to hands, look in eyes, awaken to rise and go with them. Two days prior to childbirth the appearance of a sexual loop changes – it swells and bulks up, temperature in this area becomes higher, than the usual body temperature of a dog. The mucous stopper closing an entrance to a uterus to this period is dissolved and from a sexual loop of a dog there are allocations, it means that in 24-48 hours there will be childbirth.