Does your female dog have a suspiciously voluminous abdomen? Did he go into heat some time ago? Did you escape during the heat? Do you also have a whole male dog at home? Well, your dog can be pregnant. It is not 100%sure, there are many others causes of swollen abdomen in a female dog (obesity, piometra, ascites, tumors …), but among them, especially if the dog does not manifest other symptoms of malaise, take into account even an unwanted pregnancy. But what are the symptoms of a pregnancy in the dog?
How long does the dog pregnancy last?
Let’s start with Duration of the pregnancy of the dog. For convenience often even veterinarians say it lasts 60 days. In reality, however, pregnancy can last From 57 to 65 dayswith an average of 63 days. So let’s talk about just over 8 weeks.
The duration of pregnancy, in turn, may depend on several factors:
An interesting fact concerns the fact that the female dog can pair, during the same heat or inspiration, with multiple male dogs, remaining pregnant with different dogs. This explains why sometimes, in the litters, see puppies of a decidedly different appearance between them. Well yes: in part it is also due to the remarkable genetic variability in mestizo dogs, but it is often due to the fact that The puppies can have different fathers in the same litter.
Symptoms of pregnancy in the dog
At this point, as owners, it is good to know how to recognize the first Symptoms of pregnancy in the dog. This is so as not to wake up one morning and have an unexpected surprise, that is, a dozen men’s and newborn puppies at the foot of the bed.
The problem is that during the first weeks of pregnancy there are no big symptoms to see. Usually the first symptoms begin to be decidedly manifest around a month and a half, when pregnancy is already in an advanced stage. Obviously if you have seen the dog mating and remain attached to the male, there is a high probability that has been pregnant.
However, the things you can see from month and over are:
When you arrive, then, to sixth weekhere are the symptoms are more noticeable:
Typical symptoms of human pregnancy like vomiting are not usually in dogs. If you have a pregnant dog and start vomiting, the cause may be to be found elsewhere, in forms of gastroenteritis or spontaneous abortions with infection of the uterus. (READ ALSO: pesticides, phthalates and bisphenols found in the urine of pregnant women, alarming study)
What about imaginary pregnancy in dogs?
Be careful to. In the latter cases, a month and a half or two after the heat, without there having been coupling, you could see the breasts of the dog increase in volume. If there is imaginary pregnancy, there is also the presence of milk. In the case of pseduravidanza, however, there is no milk, but only the increase in breast volume.
In both cases, these are physiological conditions connected to the dog’s hormonal axis, but which do not have the birth of the puppy as their outcome because the bitch is not pregnant.
What to do in case of dog pregnancy?
If it is suspected that the dog is pregnant or some of the above symptoms have been seen, it is better to go to veterinarian To understand if the bitch is pregnant or if we are not faced with an imaginary pregnancy.
Also remember that, from a diagnostic point of view:
If the dog is pregnant, in reality for the first few weeks you will not have to do anything. Only when it comes from the sixth week onwards and the belly starts to enlarge, it is possible that your veterinarian will recommend you to:
What to do if you want to interrupt the pregnancy of dogs?
There is a Injectable drug which allows DI stop pregnancy of dogs. The advice is to use the drug in the early stages of pregnancy, so that a fetal reabsorption.
If you expect, in fact, a more advanced stage of pregnancy, you risk a abortion real.
It will then be necessary to check the ultrasound at a distance of a few weeks that the drug has made effect and that one has not developed piometrathat is, an infection of the uterus.
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