The dog in the family is close to giving birth, and the shoveling officer is excited and nervous, for fear of poor care. Although the female dog can handle it by nature, the shoveling officer should also be fully prepared.
Prenatal Signs for Dogs
Dogs are pregnant for an average of 63 days, but the baby dog may be born early or late. The shoveling officer should pay close attention to these prenatal signals:
Preparation of the production environment
1 Building a delivery room
Boxes (wooden boxes, cartons) or rattan baskets can be used as delivery rooms. It is safer to have enclosures around them. The specific size is appropriate for the dog mother to straighten her limbs and have certain gaps. Prenatal to let the dog have enough time to familiarize and adapt to the production box environment.
2 Provide a comfortable production environment
To provide a warm, quiet, dark, ventilated and dry production place for the dog mother, to avoid strangers approaching, the family should not disturb and pay too much attention, and pay attention to be separated from other pets in the family.
Preparation of goods for production
In general, healthy dogs can cope with the problems that arise during childbirth. The master only needs a little help to solve it.
1 Auxiliary tools
The following tools can help dog mothers give birth to puppies more smoothly and safely:
2 Supplements of energy
Before production, prepare some nutritious and digestible foods for dogs, such as nutritional cream and pet milk powder. The dog mother takes a long time to produce and consumes a lot of energy in the production process. The shoveling officer can feed the dog at the production interval to help TA produce smoothly.
Other Notes
1 Contact the hospital in advance
When the dog has signs of childbirth, you can call the veterinarian for help and guidance. If the dog mother has a dystocia, she can also be sent to the hospital in time to reduce the risk of childbirth.
2 Prenatal cleaning
A few days before production, you can wash and clean the nipples of the dog mother with gentle light salt water to ensure the hygiene of postpartum lactation. The owner of the long-haired dog also needs to push the hair around the belly and buttocks of the dog mother short to facilitate the production of breast-feeding.
3 Home Disinfection
The resistance of small milk dogs is weak. Before the dog produces, it is necessary to disinfect the home to avoid the dog from getting sick. It is necessary to choose a low-toxic disinfectant to avoid hurting the dog's mother and baby.
What about the following special circumstances?
If there are three situations in the dog's birth: weak breathing, massive bleeding of the dog's mother, and fever and convulsion of the dog's mother, there are the following countermeasures, please keep in mind:
1 Puppy Breathing Weak
If the puppy is born with weak breathing or no breathing, you can put the puppy's head down, wipe the mucus in the puppy's nostrils and mouth with a towel, and then wipe the dog's back with a towel to stimulate him.
Mother Dog Bleeding
After the puppy is born, if the dog mother vagina still has more bright red excrement outflow, it indicates that the birth canal may have massive bleeding, the application of absorbent cotton will be vaginal blockage, quickly sent to the pet hospital for treatment.
3 Dog Mom Fever Tics
If the dog has fever and convulsions after giving birth, it indicates that he is short of calcium after giving birth. He needs to be sent to a doctor immediately to supplement calcium and stop feeding.
