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Originally Posted by bellemarie  have any of your girls ever mothered each others pups? as in keeping them warm when the mom gets out of the bed and playing with them as they get older?
missy and kitty both expect bambi and kuki to pull their weight in the raising of litters - although missy and kitty cant be in the same house as each other as they both are dominant personalities but now have their own packs (both of which include bambi and kuki... long story...)
if i keep bambi and kuki away from the litter the mother gets really anxious if she needs to leave them at all. and my girls do have quite big litters, so after they are a day old i just let bam and kuki in the room (the basket sits beside my bed as my girls sleep with me at night) and all is well...
my mentor has a mother and daughter who both whelped at the same time (the same time the younger was taken to stud the older got into her male)
but the mother actually helped her daughter have, clean and feed the pups! do we just have bazzarly maternal dogs or are all like this? is it just because of a good pack structure? should kitty be as good if kuki had pups or could she try to eliminate the competition? |
I usually don't introduce my pups to any other females in the house until after their first innoculation....probably around 9-10 weeks....but at that time, yes other females assist n the rearing of the pups, that is if mom's allow it. However, I keep a very close watch....I don't usually don't put litters together to play until about 12 weeks of age....