Avoiding Pregnancy

[prworksnow]

Our 9 month old whippet has just come into season. Our 18 month old boy whippet is very interested!

Is there something like a contraceptive pill we can give her to avoid the inevitable happening?

(We don't want her to have puppies because we couldn't bear to sell them and would have to keep them all!)

Any advice gratefully received.

prworksnow

 

[Karen]

You baby is FAR to young to have puppies anyway so the best sure fire no mistakes way is to keep your dog very well away from your bitch.

No, I thought it would be ok for a few days or I thought my mother/father/husband/wife was shutting the doors or I was only out of the room for a few seconds.

Sorry to have a bit of a rant but dogs are not like humans, 9 times out of ten if the dogs mate there will be puppies.

There are pills but you will be really storing up trouble for later and its probably too late to start the couse now anyway. Can your dog or bitch stay with someone else for three weeks or so?

Eighteen month old dogs are well up for it so best of luck. Just imagine a young baby is in a room with tiger. :thumbsup: What would you do?

 

[nina]

There are contraception methods available from your vet, it's best to make an appointment asap & find out, it may be too late to give as she has already started the season but the vet will advise you.

The best way to avoid a pregnancy for now is to seperate them asap & make sure that the dog does not get to her.

Her most receptive time will probably be between the 10th - 15th day of her season BUT i wouldn't take ANY chances either before this or after until she has completely finished her season.

I know of bitches that have been mated as early as the 5th day of their season & have produced a litter & equally another bitch was caught at well over 20 days (I think about 22 day) & had a litter of 6, so i definitely would take NO chances, especially as this girl is still a baby of just 9 months herself.

If you are happy not to breed then the wisest solution would be to have her spayed after this season is finished or else you are going to have this problem every time unless of course you have the dog castrated, but this still doesn't eliminate the risk of the bitch maybe getting out during one of her seasons & being mated by someone else's dog, so in my books it's far wiser to have her spayed

Good luck & i would watch them like hawks & make sure there are no accidents.

Nina

 

[prworksnow]

You baby is FAR to young to have puppies anyway so the best sure fire no mistakes way is to keep your dog very well away from your bitch.
No, I thought it would be ok for a few days or I thought my mother/father/husband/wife was shutting the doors or I was only out of the room for a few seconds.

Sorry to have a bit of a rant but dogs are not like humans, 9 times out of ten if the dogs mate there will be puppies.

There are pills but you will be really storing up trouble for later and its probably too late to start the couse now anyway.  Can your dog or bitch stay with someone else for three weeks or so?

Eighteen month old dogs are well up for it so best of luck.  Just imagine a young baby is in a room with tiger. :thumbsup:   What would you do?

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[prworksnow]

Thank you Nina, that's good advice.

One of them will be in the boarding kennels this afternoon!

 

[nina]

Very wise & VERY sensible.

Shame there isn't someone you know & can trust to maybe just look after the little dog for a while just till she has finished her season, what about any family members who are maybe close by?

Nina

 

[prworksnow]

Very wise & VERY sensible.
Shame there isn't someone you know & can trust to maybe just look after the little dog for a while just till she has finished her season, what about any family members who are maybe close by?

Nina

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[prworksnow]

No, there's no family that can have her;

we've had a rethink and bought a 4'x3'x3' indoor kennel for her to sleep in. It comes tomorrow.

The boy is with me at work all day so that should work out OK.

Thanks for your advice Nina, and thanks to everyone else who replied.

 

[nina]

No, there's no family that can have her;

we've had a rethink and bought a 4'x3'x3' indoor kennel for her to sleep in. It comes tomorrow.

The boy is with me at work all day so that should work out OK.

Thanks for your advice Nina, and thanks to everyone else who replied.

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Good idea, really pleased for you that you have it sorted. As long as when they are both home together you are really careful it should all go ok this time.

Let us know how you get on, all the best.

Nina

 

[jezza]

No, there's no family that can have her;we've had a rethink and bought a 4'x3'x3' indoor kennel for her to sleep in. It comes tomorrow.

The boy is with me at work all day so that should work out OK.

Thanks for your advice Nina, and thanks to everyone else who replied.

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When you say 'indoor kennel' do you mean a crate/cage? The reason I ask is that we have a dog who wees quite a lot :b when we are out. He is confined to the kitchen as we tried a crate but he gets EXTREMELY distressed if we put him in it, soils it and tries to dig out of it

I was just wondering if there was anything else I could try him in. We are about to try and sell our house soon but the kitchen smells of wee and he also chews cupboard doors!!

 

[kerry0378]

V fortunate timing that this post come up, as my 9 to 10 month old bitch has also just come into season, this being my first bitch and the fact that she cut her pad while out meant that the first night I thought my 16 month old male was just being really sweet and attentive I thought bless him how sweet, licking her paw and following her around the house, guarding her etc. How wrong I was.

So far bitch spray and plenty of old sheets seem to be working, and Charlie got shipped straight off to my parents house, though i miss him being around.

Oh and i'm glad the mating thing has cropped up because just a few weeks ago someone who used to own whippets advised me that as she is fit and healthy i should mate her at the "first break", which I thought was a touch young as shes still a baby herself

 

[05whippet]

IMO 9/10 months is far too young to breed from as she is'nt mentally or physically mature enough to cope, if you plan to breed from her I would be inclined to wait until she was around 2yrs old and more settled.

Also to prworksnow our bitch was on her 22nd day before she took,so as Nina said they are all different and don't unfortunately read the same books as us (w00t)

 

[alfyn]

Just a word of warning if your indoor is a crate.It has been known for a dog to mate a bitch through the gaps in the crate with dangerous consequences!!

 

[Seraphina]

IMO 9/10 months is far too young to breed from as she is'nt mentally or physically mature enough to cope, if you plan to breed from her I would be inclined to wait until she was around 2yrs old  and more settled.
Also to prworksnow our bitch was on her 22nd day before she took,so as Nina said they are all different and don't unfortunately read the same books as us  (w00t)

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Over the years I had 2 litters concieved about the 21-22 day and Tamara had a puppy from 27th day mating this is the thread;

http://www.k9community.co.uk/forums/index....topic=13575&hl=