If you expect appearance of puppies any day, then have to not only prepare the suitable place for mother, but also not pass the moment of the beginning of childbirth not to leave your favourite one at a difficult moment. By what signs it is possible to determine approach of childbirth?
Instruction
1. Calculate, what is the time passed from the date of knitting. Usually starting date of childbirth – about 58-65 day. In advance note this time in the calendar and try to arrange the affairs so that you could be near the dog.
2. Equip the place for future mother and her posterity. As a rule, with approach of term the dog becomes uneasy, attentively surveys dark corners, cases, boxes and other possible secret places. If you noticed such changes in her behavior, it means that it is necessary to arrange a patrimonial nest. Best of all the box from thick plywood or from struganny boards with three boards will approach, but it is possible to take a usual box from under the TV. Put it to the quiet dry place where there are no drafts, on a bottom lay newspapers and soft fabric.
3. Watch health of a dog and her behavior carefully. The first signs of the beginning of childbirth – fall of temperature of a body approximately by one degree. If you noticed that the dog began to worry, went to the equipped place, began to dig, so childbirth begins.
4. Pay attention to the following phenomena: emergence of slime from a vagina says that waters depart, the dog pants, can begin to squeal a little, her stomach falls, most likely, she will refuse food. Special attention needs to be paid to young dogs who give birth for the first time. They can not understand what happens to it, to begin to rush about and to whine loudly.
5. Do not worry, ask strangers to leave from the room and watch process. Fights can continue several hours, however usually the help is not required, the dog will make everything. If a female primipara, at appearance of the kid help it to break off an amniotic bubble and cut an umbilical cord. It is necessary to watch that young inexperienced mother did not press down puppies. If something went wrong, immediately call the expert.