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► Reproduction & Breeding Information for Dogs 
Description: Reproduction & Breeding Information for Dogs Reproduction in the dog is much more complex than it may first appear. Learn about the dog reproductive system, normal heat cycles, breeding, infertility, pregnancy and its complications, birth, and care and feeding of the pregnant dog and puppies.

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Added on: 04-Nov-2008
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► Tube Feeding a litter of Cavalier King Charles Spaniels 
Description: Cavalier Puppies are larger than Pomeranian Babies, so the amount of formula feed and the size of the syringe should be adjusted accordinngly.

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Added on: 06-Dec-2008
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► Hand Rearing Pomeranian Puppies 
Description: Hand Rearing Pomeranian Puppies.Pomeranian babies are very small at birth , an average newborn Pomeranian baby weighs between 2 and 5 oz at birth. Puppies must be kept warm , at a constant temperature of 95-100 F [35 - 38 C] the first week. The temperature can be slowly dropped to 75 F [24 C] after the age of 3 weeks. I personally prefer the use of an overhead infra-red light for heat purposes and I keep a bowl of water nearby to keep the atmosphere near the puppies moist. It is imperative that the puppies never become dehydrated. You can easily check that puppy is not dehydrated, by pulling a little skin up and checking how quickly the skin returns to normal.

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Added on: 06-Dec-2008
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► Feeding the Puppy 
Description: Feeding the Puppy Lots of times we have one or more of the puppies in a litter that need help during the first week. Right here is where we say, as clearly as possible, if you can't be available to help your bitch and your puppies at this time, you don't deserve to have those puppies. To Tube or Not To Tube The answer to this depends entirely upon whether you want your puppies to live or not. What! You say, tubing is the ONLY way to save puppies. And besides, it's fast. Fast, yes, and deadly. It's one of those things that sounds too good (easy) to be true; and if it sounds too good to be true it is; we know that it is in our most private thoughts. Fast and deadly isn't doing your part by the bitch or the puppies. You may be certain that you are getting the tube in the esophagus (which leads to the stomach) and not the trachea (which leads to the lungs). But, this isn't the problem I'm referring to. Consider this: when we eat, the process of eating stimulates waves of contraction throughout our entire GI tract. You know very well that as puppies nurse they defecate. That reaction is due to these waves of contraction, which are called peristalsis.

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Added on: 07-Jan-2009
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► PRE-BREEDING EXAM FOR THE BITCH 
Description: PRE-BREEDING EXAM FOR THE BITCH A few procedures performed before the bitch comes in heat may make all the difference in producing a litter of live healthy puppies. These procedures will contribute to the continued good health of your bitch. Also, they ensure the safety of the stud dog if a natural breeding should desired, and they can help protect the stud dog's reputation by preventing unnecessary breeding failures. We like to start about one month before the coming heat, in order to have time to treat any problems found. The most common factor in missed litters is the condition of the uterus. Changes to the uterus occur because of low grade bacterial infection, and the progesterone stimulation that occurs in the 'false pregnancy' experienced by every bitch following her heat. Progesterone causes changes in the uterine lining and additionally lowers resistance to bacterial infections. The full breeding cycle in the bitch not 3 weeks, but 4 months, due to the hormonal false pregnancy. Some bitches show outward physical and behavioral signs of a false pregnancy, others don't, but they all have elevated progesterone levels that affect disease resistance and the uterine lining. If a bitch cycles once a year, every 8 months, or every 6 months, she has time for the uterine lining to rest and normalize. Bitches that cycle every 4 months have no such rest period. These short-cyclers, therefore, are more likely to have the condition known as cystic hyperplasia. They are also, for the same reasons, more likely to suffer chronic low grade infection and inflammation in the uterus. The result of these latter two conditions is a build up of diffuse scar tissue in the endometrium. It also follows that every year older the bitch is, the greater the build up of damage from these causes.

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Added on: 07-Jan-2009
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► Artificial Insemination 
Description: Artificial Insemination New information, new instrumentation, and the availability of new skills needed to be incorporated in the article formerly found here, asking “Why AI” and “Why Not AI”. At the present time, trans-cervical insemination is rapidly becoming more widely available. More information is available about the reliability of in-the-office ELISA tests, and more practitioners interested in small animal reproduction are establishing breeder programs. Information about veterinarians offering reproductive services can be obtained from the membership list of the Society For Theriogenology (animal reproduction). Their web site is at http://www.therio.org and you may contact them for member veterinarians in your area. So, once again, let’s examine the subject of artificial insemination. There are many variations of AI to consider. There is dog-to-dog artificial insemination, fresh-extended (chilled) semen insemination, and frozen semen insemination. Techniques of AI include vaginal deposition, surgical implant, and trans-cervical insemination. Studies have been published with convincing evidence that every semen preparation – fresh, fresh-extended or frozen – will produce larger litters if semen is deposited directly into the uterus, especially with trans-cervical technique. That being said, fresh and fresh-extended semen give decent results with vaginal deposition. Trans-cervical inseminations are done by endoscope or the “Norwegian catheter”. The rigid endoscope is more widely used than the Norwegian catheter, and has the considerable advantage of providing the operator and the bitch’s owner with a view of the actual deposition of semen in the uterus by way of a TV monitor. Those skilled in the use of the Norwegian catheter can get excellent results as well. Trans-cervical semen depositions do not require any sedation at all in nearly all cases.

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Added on: 07-Jan-2009
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► FRESH EXTENDED SEMEN BREEDING 
Description: FRESH EXTENDED SEMEN BREEDING Fresh extended semen (FES) is semen which is collected at the time it is needed, for the purpose of being shipped. Frozen semen is semen which is collected for the purpose of being stored over a period of time, or for being shipped to distant places (for example Australia) where fresh semen would not arrive soon enough to be in good condition. Actually it used to be the case that even semen was quarantined upon arrival in Australia for 3 weeks. With the new canine quarantine laws at the present time, there may be a less restrictive policy on semen as well. Fresh extended semen is processed in a similar way to frozen in that a ‘medium’ is used which protects and nourishes the sperm cells in transit. However, the freezing is avoided, thus assuring in most cases an over 40% better number of live and motile sperm cells. All extenders are not equal, and those who wish to freeze or ship semen should carefully research the subject, and not be swayed by advertising and other marketing techniques in making their choice. With the best of extenders, we expect fresh extended semen to be much more effective in fertilizing the bitch’s eggs than frozen semen from the same dog would be. There are various reasons for shipping semen instead of dogs. The possibility of death of the bitch due to shipping, for instance, as well as the stress which can precipitate herpes or bacterial infections and result in resorbtion of the fetuses. Sometimes the weather - hot or cold and snowy - is the reason to keep the bitch home. Sometimes holiday traffic. There stresses involved in shipping can be sufficient to prevent a litter being whelped, whether from Herpes or other factors.

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Added on: 07-Jan-2009
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► Orphaned Puppies: How to Raise Them 
Description: Puppies are usually orphaned when the mother (dam) is not able to adequately care for her puppies. This may be because she cannot produce milk (a condition called agalactia) or because she has behavioral or psychological abnormalities, which prevent her from adequately caring for her puppies. In rare instances, the mother may actually not be present due to death, injury, or complications arising from a difficult birthing. Some puppies may be several weeks old before their mother becomes unable to care for them.

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Added on: 03-Aug-2009
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► Feeding Orphan Puppies 
Description: Feeding Orphan Puppies

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Added on: 03-Aug-2009
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► Caring for Newborn Puppies & Their Mother 
Description: Caring for Newborn Puppies & Their Mother

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Added on: 03-Aug-2009
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