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Originally Posted by yorkielover39  Yes but I seriously doubt that is going to be a problem. Neither of my dogs have any health disease except my male dog has dermatitis, the important thing there is to keep their vacinations up to date to prevent any diseases from occuring. Shelby's birthday is June 13, 2009 so she was about a year old when she went into heat. I talked to CKC beforehand and they said dogs can have pups after they are a year old. The pregnancy was kind of a shock, my male dog didn't want to leave her alone, but she didn't let him bother her to the point that we thought she got pregnant. So I ended up having my brother take a look at her and he said she's definetly pregnant, and about a week later, the pups were born. I read that the risks involved with the first litter dying, is from if they do not eat well, or get too cold, during the first few days after they are born, but they are eating like piggy's, and gaining weight just fine.
I feel really dumb about this but Shelby isn't having bloody mucus from her bowels, when I went to feed her today, the Ceaser food I've been giving her, I noticed the red colored slimy gravy in it, that is what she expelled in her bowels yesterday. Go ahead laugh, lol. |
Sorry, but I have to disagree with that statement. Yes, vaccinations are important to prevent SOME communicable diseases from occurring (and that there is a lot of controversy regarding the frequency and timing of the vaccinations). Dermatitis, BTW, can be caused by a genetic pre-disposition that can be passed on to the pups. But there are so many other diseases and conditions that could be passed to the pups that may not begin showing up in your dogs for quite a while. Even if both of your dogs appear healthy, if you don't know the health history of both lines you could potentially be breeding dogs who each carry recessive genes for these diseases. When these two dogs breed, there is a 1:4 chance the pup will be totally healthy, 2:4 chance the pup will also have the trait and carry it on and a 1:4 chance the pup will develop the disease.
I would hope that before you breed these dogs again (if that's your intention) that you have them thoroughly tested. If you don't, then please get one or both "fixed", because as you found out, it doesn't take long for a tie to happen and litter to result. You no longer have the excuse of ignorance in this matter.