It Never Gets Easy
Sunday, February 19, 2017
After 18 years of dog breeding, I thought I am already past the heartaches. After all, I specialize in pomeranians - one of the heartbreak breeds out there. I am on my 11th year of pomeranian breeding, and I have finally bred my strain of vigorous dogs with good mothering skills, abundant milk and robust puppies. Last Feb 13, I had a fourth -generation Perico litter delivered without a hitch.
The case was different for my third generation Perico beagles. Tasia my bitch is a small 13 inch beagle where the current rage is the 15 inch variety. The smallest acceptable stud I got was a 14 inch one.
Tasia delivered her first pup at 4pm February 16 without fanfare. The second one took 2 hours and came out with underside ripped open, with heart, instestines and other organs intact but spilling out of its body. It was alive, but the umbilical cord must have ripped the skin apart while being ejected from the womb. The poor dog put a brave fight for life, but succumb after 4 hrs, after a surgery to bring inside her organs and close of the skin.
Tasia had a total of 5 puppies - 3 girls and 2 boys. All the rest were delivered normally with aid of oxytocin. The whole labor lasted almost 8 hours, which is long by normal standards. Perhaps that explains the fading puppies - the active ones that suddenly refused to suckle.
For 3 nights we tried to assist the fading puppies to suckle. Eventually, two more puppies died. We end up with two strong puppies - a large red and white, and a normal sized tricolor. That is 60% mortality for a mid-size breed, but I am still glad for a new litter that will continue my beagle line.
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The case was different for my third generation Perico beagles. Tasia my bitch is a small 13 inch beagle where the current rage is the 15 inch variety. The smallest acceptable stud I got was a 14 inch one.
Tasia delivered her first pup at 4pm February 16 without fanfare. The second one took 2 hours and came out with underside ripped open, with heart, instestines and other organs intact but spilling out of its body. It was alive, but the umbilical cord must have ripped the skin apart while being ejected from the womb. The poor dog put a brave fight for life, but succumb after 4 hrs, after a surgery to bring inside her organs and close of the skin.
Tasia had a total of 5 puppies - 3 girls and 2 boys. All the rest were delivered normally with aid of oxytocin. The whole labor lasted almost 8 hours, which is long by normal standards. Perhaps that explains the fading puppies - the active ones that suddenly refused to suckle.
For 3 nights we tried to assist the fading puppies to suckle. Eventually, two more puppies died. We end up with two strong puppies - a large red and white, and a normal sized tricolor. That is 60% mortality for a mid-size breed, but I am still glad for a new litter that will continue my beagle line.
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