Dog Pregnancy and Postpartum Care: The Complete Guide
Before birth’s care
Diet management:
Feed nutrition value relatively high’s food, like lean meat, egg yolk and animal internal organs etc., and supplement some calcium and fish liver oil, this to ensure dog dog’s body health, fetal dog normal development, prevent miscarriage and milk secretion etc. plays decisive role. Pregnancy later stage, due to uterus’s development often will press stomach intestine, therefore must eat less with more meals, and in food add some vegetables, to prevent constipation. (Note: Mother dog’s pregnancy period generally is 59~65 days, usually according 60 days plus minus 3 days calculate).
Appropriate activity:
Because dog dog pregnancy during action becomes slow, lazy, this time we must give it appropriate outdoor activity, more sun exposure, but avoid excessive exercise, to avoid miscarriage.
Deworming work:
Generally pregnancy period must deworm three times, respectively in pregnancy early stage, before birth 10 days and after birth 10 days perform. Must not feed excessive deworming medicine, to avoid occur miscarriage.
Immune work:
According normal immune program inject after, again pregnant’s dog dog can strengthen one time immune injection, this to enhance dog dog and born young dog’s resistance force greatly beneficial.
After birth’s care
Clean hygiene:
Delivery end after, vulva, tail and breast etc. parts must use warm water wash clean, wipe dry, keep body surface clean, replace dirty mattress pad, note keep warm, prevent puerperal fever’s occurrence. Dog dog after birth 1~2 weeks inside will have brown mucus from birth flow out, after gradually become colorless transparent liquid. If flow out’s mucus is black and with bad smell, then should check its body temperature whether normal, and timely invite veterinarian diagnose treat.
Quiet rest:
Due to delivery time body consume too big, this time dog dog very weak, must keep 8~24 hours quiet rest; must not let stranger approach, avoid it receive harass, otherwise extreme situation under will occur bite person accident or swallow eat young dog’s situation.
Diet management:
After birth best feed some contain cow milk, chicken egg, pass 5~6 hours after again feed food; initial few days feed give nutrition rich’s liquid food (like cow milk rush chicken egg, meat porridge etc.), wait one week after gradually feed give relatively dry’s food.
Nursing:
Note dog dog nursing situation, if milk secretion relatively few, can feed give cow milk, pig claw soup, fish soup or pig lung soup etc. to increase milk secretion quantity. Like dog dog not give young dog nursing, must check clear reason, timely adopt corresponding measure.
Help young dog discharge fetal feces:
For stimulate young dog excrete, dog dog must use tongue lick young dog buttock. Like not lick, can in young dog anus near micro quantity coat with cream etc., purpose is induce dog dog go lick, help young dog discharge fetal feces.
