In this article we’ll concentrate your attention on the period of pupping and the one after it. It is very important to notice abnormal labor to be able to help your dog or a puppy and be ready to ask for qualified veterinary help.
Coupling of a small she-dog with a large male dog can cause difficult labors. In such situation, ask your veterinary surgeon to be present at pupping, because too big size of puppies can cause a mogitocia.
Vitamin imbalances, non-observance of sanitary and hygienic rules cause different difficulties. .
Modern methods of diagnostics (ultrasonic visualization, radiographic examination) allow establishing with high degree of reliability quantity of fetuses and to examine uterus. That’s why if you think, that your dog’s duration of gestation is too long or if you marked some symptoms of indisposition (lack of appetite, anxiety, rising of temperature, vaginal discharges with an unpleasant smell, general weakness or depression), it is better to consult a vet.
During whelping, especially if this is a plural pregnancy, a dog quickly gets tired and has no forces on contractions of abdominal muscles for expulsing. In this case, it is necessary to identify, whether the intervals between puppies are too long (up to 90 minutes or even longer). If there are no born puppies, the probability, that they will be alive, decreases by each hour. If you see that your dog bears down without results, do not wait, when it becomes totally creased, call the veterinary surgeon.
Obesity, wrong keeping of a dog and bed feeding during the period when your dog is in pup, abdominal hernia, and strain of uterine muscle and abdominal muscles, when it whelps a large puppy can cause a difficult bearing-down. Waiting for a doctor, try to do a massage of abdominal muscles. Offer to the dog warm sweet tea or coffee with milk. A vet will make injections which will renew labour and will help to pup remained puppies.
If there is dryness of parturient canal, it is possible to place boiled and cooled down vaseline or any other oil into vagina.
If the birth canal is narrow normally begun birth activity leads to presentation of a part of a puppy’s body from the vagina. As a result of labour, there can be vaginal laceration. That’s why if you see that a puppy or birth membranes appear from external genitals and again disappear in absence of labour, urgently call the veterinary surgeon. Such abnormalities can be, if you have a she-dog of a small breed or if it is a first-time mother.
It often happens that a just born puppy looks lifeless. Don’t get scared! It is necessary to massage it by towel carefully, but energetically, to clean mucus from the mouth and nose, to massage the chest, to shake a little headlong. Try to accurately open its mouth, opening respiratory ways; this will help to make the first breath. Try to force puppy to emit any sound, it will also make the first breath.
Pets are not just “alive” beings that live with us, pet are a lot more important. And you are really responsible for them. Those of you who have dogs, must know info about dog health. This is not a bizarre statement, this is what your pet really needs from you.
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