Its quite sad really, my wee girl (dog), had the most beautiful litter of puppies as stated and pictured, we've received numerous requests for puppies from the original owners recommendations, we waited the correct time (two seasons) and approached the same stud dog owner, who was more than happy to arrange mating, on the day of mating she had a different dog from the original one, and the original one was the one we wanted to use, this new one had just been returned from Norway i think, after extensive breeding, she now wanted to prove him here, so we agreed to use him, the mating went well, we returned two days later as standard, had second mating. All fine.
Our wee girls seemed just like before all the way through, 63 days came, i had been sleeping on the sofa with her in her whelping box, all very exciting, day 65 (two days over), nothing, joined a breeders forum, was told to get vet, i had already visited vet who thought she was pregnant and still had days to go. So back to vet, who did xray and saw pups. Sent me home with her again, back to forum, everybody went mad, get to vets now, blah blah blah. So back to vets for emergency c -section, the pups had died at 4 weeks and her womb was full of poison, i was lucky to have her. Apparently a virus was to blame which can pass over at time of mating. Breeder was very "caring" immediately said her dog was fine. So the advice i got from experienced breeders was to mate her again next season, this prevents scarring? So we patiently waited, then contacted breeder, she wanted full stud fee again, this is not the standard, usually if there are no live puppies then a charge for mating will not apply.
It cost me well over £1000 for mating, xrays, c-section and meds. So i don't do this for money, but also won't be bullied on it either. Hope this makes sense. Eddie. x
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