Dogs are inclined to such phenomenon as false pregnancy. At the same time a bough behaves as if she was indeed pregnant. It is not so simple to distinguish a false state from true, sometimes for clearing of a situation not to do without the address to the veterinarian.
Instruction
1. Several weeks later after a techka the dog can have first signs of false pregnancy – nipples are poured, from them even milk can begin to be allocated. If under a female at this moment to enclose a puppy, she will take it for the cub and ideally can even bring up. To understand the cause of this state, it is enough to remember that canids are gregarious animals. The main female has priority rights of reproduction in such pack, the others have to care for posterity livelihood. So ordinary boughs become wet nurses for puppies of the main female. But what in the wild nature can become rescue for all dog family at pets does not lead to anything good.
2. As soon as you noticed signs of false pregnancy at the dog, take all necessary measures for simplification of a condition of the alumna. First of all examine mammary glands of a dog. If they were poured and swelled up a little, remove hypostasis cool rubdowns. For wetting of a towel it is possible to add a little apple cider vinegar to water. Do not allow a dog to rassasyvat milk if she does not stop trying, perhaps it is necessary to put on her a collar from plastic.
3. Examine the house and remove all objects which the dog will be able to take for puppies from free access, the peeping toys are especially dangerous in this plan – their sound provokes production of the hormones prolonging false pregnancy. You do not praise and do not feel sorry for a dog not to indulge the maternal instinct which overcame her.
4. Try to distract an animal, walking him as often as possible, it is desirable in unfamiliar places that new impressions whenever possible completely overshadowed old feelings.
5. Transfer a dog to feeding in the small portions, try to avoid the products promoting office of milk – for example, cottage cheese or warm broth.
6. If house measures help only poorly, it is necessary to see a doctor that that prescribed medicines for the termination of false pregnancy. This the state not only is unpleasant as for boughs, and its environments, but also is fraught with piometry – the purulent inflammation of a cavity of a uterus menacing to health and even life of a dog.