Emergence in a dog of puppies – a joyful event which owners need to approach responsibly. Quite often unaware people consider that pets do not need in any help and are capable to cope with childbirth independently. However this opinion is wrong. Childbirth is a severe stress for a dog and can be fraught with complications. It is very important that the owner at this moment was present near the alumna, managed to render her the necessary help and could call in emergency situation the veterinarian on the house.
It is required to you
- - sharp scissors with stupid tips for cutting of an umbilical cord;
- - medical alcohol for disinfection of scissors;
- - iodine or brilliant green;
- - potassium permanganate;
- - bandage;
- - threads for bandaging of an umbilical cord;
- - sterile cotton wool and gauze;
- - several ordinary syringes;
- - several insulin syringes;
- - sterile medical gloves;
- - hydrogen peroxide;
- - vaseline oil or Levomekol;
- - sterile diapers or towels for rubdown of newborn puppies;
- - box for puppies;
- - box for a genus of a dog;
- - small mattress or warm blanket;
- - polyethylene film;
- - clean pillowcase;
- - hot-water bottle;
- - the silk surgical thread cut on pieces on 10-15 cm.
Instruction
1. At a preparatory stage to childbirth it is necessary to take care of that the pregnant dog had a place. It needs to be equipped approximately in one and a half weeks prior to estimated date. Usually before childbirth the dog independently chooses the convenient location. However she needs close attention of the owner during all process therefore it is impossible to allow to be hammered with it under a bed or to settle in other secluded place.
2. You can place a dog on a mattress, having put it on a floor and having covered with a film and the sterile absorbing diapers. And here the bed is not suitable for a genus of a dog, the owner should distract for a second, and from it the alumna or just born puppy can fall that is fraught with sad consequences.
3. Better for a genus of a dog to use a box. The last has to be protected from drafts and rather spacious. To the place there has to be free access that you could help the alumna in due time.
4. Besides the place where there will take place process of childbirth, it will be required to equip boxes in which newborn puppies together with mom will begin to be at first. The cardboard box where kids will live, has to have such size that the dog could turn over, be extended easily in it in all directions, rise in all growth so that at the same time there was a place and to puppies. At the same time this capacity should not be very big as it is more difficult to maintain optimum temperature in spacious "den".
5. The box should have no top. Instead of it from above it is necessary to throw with a diaper and to attach it clothespegs to cardboard. It is desirable to cut out an entrance to "den" at some height from a floor that the dog could enter freely inside, and her cubs could not creep out outside. On a bottom of this box it is necessary to lay a mattress, having wrapped up it in a plastic bag. The last, in turn, should be covered with a soft dense pillowcase.
6. Before childbirth at a dog it is necessary to wash out carefully area of a stomach and genitals, to cut wool on a stomach and around a loop. If the animal has a beard or long mustache, too it is better to shear them that they did not prevent an umbilical cord perekusyvaniye. Long wool on a tail should be bandaged, but not too hardly that wool did not disturb a dog and puppies.
7. If you are going to deliver a dog at home or want to help the veterinarian, take care of that your hands were disinfected and clean, and nails on hands – shortly cut. The comfortable clothes which after the delivery a dog it will not be grieves you to throw out have to be put on you.
8. Childbirth of small dogs often is long, the animal is tired, is exhausted, it finishes forces. To encourage the alumna, it is possible to give to drink her during childbirth sweet tea.
9. It is the best of all to agree in advance with the veterinarian who will be able to arrive to you in emergency if suddenly childbirth at a dog is complicated. You remember: the help at childbirth can be required by any dog. In particular the risk of difficult childbirth increases at pets who treat small breeds or give birth for the first time.
10. After the delivery the dog has to have a rest several hours. It is not necessary at once to begin to admire newly appeared posterity and to convoke all family to show puppies. All this can be made later.