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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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► 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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► KENNEL BLINDNESS 
Description: As part of the critical process of choosing a sire and dam, as well as deciding which puppies to keep, below we address the topic of kennel blindness. "The breeder, to be successful, must look his dogs ...not only in the face, but in the body, front and running gear. Even to themselves many breeders will not acknowledge their failure when they fall short of their objective...and in an effort to convince others of the perfection of their dogs, [they] convince...usually only themselves." Onstott DEFINITION Found in many kennels of purebred dogs, kennel blindness is a "disease" which renders a breeder incapable of seeing faults in his own dogs. Kennel blind breeders tend to twist and distort the standard to justify the dogs they breed. PROGNOSIS Because serious faults can become set in a couple of generations, unless quickly diagnosed and treated, kennel blindness can be fatal to a successful breeding program. SYMPTOMS

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Added on: 06-Jan-2012
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► How to Hand-Raise Puppies 
Description: How to Hand-Raise Puppies

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Added on: 29-Apr-2008
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► Handrearing Puppies 
Description: Handrearing Puppies

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

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Added on: 03-Aug-2009
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► FAQs on Reproduction (Heats & Pregnancies) in Dogs 
Description: At what age can a dog have her first litter? Puberty (the age at which animals can reproduce) in the dog is usually between 5 and 12 months of age. This is when a dog will have her first heat. Some large breed dogs may not have their first heat until they are almost 2 years old. How often does a dog come into heat? Most dogs come into heat every 6 to 7 months. How can I tell if a dog is in heat? Just prior to coming into heat, the dogs' vulva and breasts may enlarge and a bloody discharge will be seen coming from the vulva. At this point, she is not yet ready to accept a male dog. When the vaginal discharge becomes more yellow in color, generally in 4 to 13 days, she will accept the male. She will accept the male for another 4 to 13 days. How long is pregnancy in the dog? Dogs generally have their puppies 58 to 68 days after they are bred. The average is 63 days.

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Added on: 04-Nov-2008
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