18/09/2020
Managing a female dog is hard work
By Angel and Princess Kennel
Before you get a female dog, please note these 20 points:
1. If you have never kept a dog before, please don't start with a female dog. You may not be able to control your dog when she whelps or delivers. Female dogs (also known as bi***es) usually get excessively aggressive and nasty when they whelp. That is why the word "bitch" is used in a derogatory form for nasty people. If you don't know how to train dogs right from their puppy stage, so as to completely dominate them, when your bitch delivers, she won't allow you to come near her puppies. And if you can't go near her to take away the puppies frequently, most or all of them will likely die through suffocation or dehydration.
2. If you don't have 100% control of your time, please don't keep a female dog, or you will lose all or most of the puppies. From the time a dog whelps to up to at least 2 weeks, you need to keep an eye on her every minute or she may kill the puppies inadvertently. Female dogs regularly lie down on their puppies and suffocate them without knowing.
3. From the day they are born to about at least 2 weeks, puppies can't see, can't hear and can't stand. They are as small as adult rats. They crawl blindly, groping and sucking anything they touch. They need human help to ensure they feed and don't get crushed to death by their mum.
4. Because they can't see, they may not be able to find the teat to get breast milk. Only the strongest and luckiest ones may find the teat.
5. Bi***es have 10 teats but two don't usually secrete milk - the two uppermost when she squats. The two below those ones are usually out of reach of the puppies for some days after delivery, except when the mother lies down. Therefore, if she has more than 6 puppies, some may never get breast milk without human assistance. And that means death by dehydration.
6. You need to get close to guide the puppies to their mother's teats or to take them away to feed them.
7. You will also most likely need to buy baby milk or puppy milk to give them intermittently to complement the milk they get from their mother.
8. Puppies need to feed every two or three hours. So you need to be close to assist them to feed on their mother's milk and wake up about two times at night to feed them.
9. To ensure that their mother does not crush them at night, you need to keep them away from their mother all through the night. They will cry every hour or two; so you need to wake up to feed them to keep them quiet and ensure that they grow well. You need to buy many tins of baby milk.
10. If you release them to their mother during the day, you need to watch over them every 3 minutes, to ensure that their mother does not lie down on any of them. Whenever she squats to suckle her puppies is the most dangerous time. You must not take your eyes off her at such times. The reason is that when she is tired of squatting and wants to lie down, one of her puppies which is sucking from the side is in danger of being lain upon and killed. When she lies down on her puppy, she does not know. If nobody is available to monitor her, you will have a dead puppy every day you return until most or all of them are dead. It is very painful to lose your puppies.
11. Puppies' bodies cannot regulate temperature for some weeks after birth. Therefore, they need warmth or they will die. You should ensure that wherever they stay during the day is covered and warm. At night, your best bet is to keep the puppies inside your house for warmth and easy access to them for feeding. They should never be on concrete floor or tiled floor. They need to be on cloth materials like towels and bedsheets or on cartons. They urinate and poo on them regularly. You need to be ready to wash the cloths, clean the place where they sleep and replace the cartons every day. It is not easy work.
12. Two weeks after delivery, their mother usually has no appetite for regular dog food or whatever she liked to eat before. She prefers to eat only meat and fish, especially boiled. So you should be ready to spend some money on that.
13. Puppies are fragile and easily get infected with diseases that can be deadly. You don't allow outsiders near them for some weeks to avoid infecting them. You protect them from infections all through that era and pray that they don't have any serious infection.
14. They need to be immunized at about the sixth week and dewormed from the third week. Vets charge some good money to immunize them. You may deworm them yourself, but it is advisable you allow qualified vets to immunize them.
15. Once they start taking solid food, they need high-protein puppy food, which is expensive. And they eat a lot. You need to find buyers for them quickly, for the more they stay with you, the more puppy food you buy. And the price of the puppies does not rise as they grow.
16. The adult dog comes into heat usually every 6 months. She has about 6 days of fertility. If you don't observe well or you don't count well and miss her oestrus cycle, you have to wait for another six months.
17. But if you manage her well and her puppies, you make some money from them.
18. Male dogs are however less stressful to manage. They can offer stud services (mating services) to female dogs for a price. If he is a good stud and you publicize him, he can be bringing you money every month. You also are entitled to one of the puppies from every litter he fathers. You make the money without experiencing the stress of managing the pregnant bitch and her puppies.
19. If you have the space, time and resources, you can keep a male and female. But it is best you start with a male, so that he will be bigger than the female when she arrives, so that he can dominate her and be able to mate with her. It is best to keep male and female of the same breed of dog and from good parents. But they should not be close relatives like brother and sister or mother and son or father and daughter, to avoid in-breeding, which weakens the puppies, creates deformities in puppies and makes them susceptible to diseases.
20. All in all, dogs are great friends and home protectors. They keep you company, guard your house without stealing your things or colluding with thieves to rob you.
