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03-24-2007, 04:58 AM | #1 |
Donating YT 12K Club Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Council Bluffs Iowa
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| Whelping crates/pens What do you use for whelping crates or pens. Not the box, but what do you put the box in. An x pen, a crate or cage, a playpen? And how big are they? I'm thinking of using an old playpen it's 24X48 and has mesh sides. would that be suitable? |
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03-24-2007, 06:11 AM | #2 |
No Longer a Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: South Florida
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| pens I have used playpens...I put a piece of vinyl on the floor, pad for mom, plastic bin type bed for mom and pups..mom can get out and potty, after a week, my moms like a small bed next to the box so they can get away for reat when pups are sleeping. I do not confine my bitches with pups in a pen so small there is no rest area for mom.. I stopped using mesh type pens when the pups started walking..nails get caught in mesh..hard to keep clean..so I bought 3x3 Central Metal pens and used the same Rubber Maid bins for beds..a vinyl floor until pups were old enough to stand on a toy grate and use pads in the corner...good luck |
03-24-2007, 09:51 AM | #3 |
BANNED! Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Kentucky
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| i use an x-pen about four by six. it's at the foot of my bed. it may be larger. i don't know. then I use the plastic sweater tray at walmarts for the actual whelping box inside the pen. i ordered somee pish pads to put in my whelping box. i used newspapers the first time because I didn't know any better. talk about a big mess. so I was ready next time around. I also don't use towels or anything similar because the babies will scoot under and get smothered. babies stay in the whelping box until they start crawling over the sides. then I move it out and put a huge heavy throw rug in it's place. by that time, they are toddling all over the place but they curl up with mama and sleep on the rug. When they are about eight or nine weeks, I move them into the room with all my other dogs. they get pee pad trained and socialized that way. |
03-24-2007, 10:12 AM | #4 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Northern California
Posts: 514
| I use a x-pen and it worked great. I've got to share something I found that so far has worked so great for puppies.. especially when they're starting to play and tumble around. It's a flooring that I picked up at Costco that is called Best-Step, anti Fatique flooring. It's interlocking ,( so you make it as large as you want) water resistant and easy to clean. I set my x-pen on it without any exposed edges to the inside ( I'm sure they'd love to chew it up) It's something fairly new to me but so far I really like it... and it's also only around $11. for 32 sq. feet. |
03-24-2007, 08:23 PM | #5 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: May 2006 Location: Missouri
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| Jeanie, instead of answering your email, I'll just post it here. This is what I use. It's fabulous. I can pull out the bottom tray, take it outside and clean it and sanitize it. For a bed, I use a rubbermaid tub. I don't know the dimensions off the top of my head. It's about 5 - 6" tall. My girls can jump over the sides with no problem and the puppies stay confined until they are old enough to jump out. It is just long enough that I can place it on the end of this cage. http://www.upco.com/cgi-bin/Upcol.st...duct/View/6203
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03-25-2007, 12:31 AM | #6 |
Donating Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Akron, Ohio
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| We've used empty refrigerator boxes before - with a side cut for easy access for mom. Also a large cage. I've tried the playpen but it didn't give the mother easy access to come and go as she pleased - and don't we all need that sometime. Good luck to you.
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03-25-2007, 02:15 AM | #7 |
Mardelin Yorkshire Terriers Donating Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: California
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| Use a 3x3 puppy pen, elevating the floor to a reachable level for this ole lady's back. 12 x12 rubber tiles are placed on top of the grates (for sure footing when puppies start walking around) and lined with washable piddle pads. Whelping box is a doggie litter box, lined with lambs will and soft bedding.
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03-25-2007, 11:56 AM | #8 |
No Longer a Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: South Florida
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| tiles I do like those rubber tiles.. |
03-25-2007, 12:03 PM | #9 |
Peeka Boo I See You! Donating Member | i think this was the coolest thread about this topic http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/sho...t=whelping+box you might be able to use a similar design
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03-25-2007, 01:12 PM | #10 |
Mardelin Yorkshire Terriers Donating Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: California
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| These are the ones the athletes use to exercise on....the ones that interlock like puzzle pieces...get them in the athletic department at WalMart.....put them under my x-pens too.....for those that love jumping on their hind legs.... I love the puppy play pens with that top that you can lock down....keeps mommy up high enough, so she can have the privacy some moms love. I have one that doesn't want anyone to look at her babies, so I've had to make a special cover that completely surrounds the puppy pen.
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