[QUOTE=Rhetts_mama;4299849]He has been a member here since 2/2012. He has had plenty of time, and
the resources available here at YT to do research on what goes in to breeding BEFORE he and his roommate got the bright idea to stick two dogs together.
That, IMO, makes what he is doing exceedingly irresponsible.
You can't learn what you need to know about safely whelping on a website or by watching YouTube videos. You need a hands-on mentor who will be there with you during the whelp, and preferably had you assist with a whelping before your own dog does. There are so many things that can go wrong, before during and after a whelp, and
it takes an experienced eye to know how to intervene or when an emergency vet is needed to prevent the loss of either a pup or the dam.The OP describes himself as being in the medical field. Hopefully he will realize that his training doesn't cover this.
I would also hope he would realize that it's both offensive and trivializing to refer to breeding as "preggers" and "knocked up".[/QUOTE]
When I first read the op's post, my initial thought was, "Here we go again....novices that have absolutely no experience or knowledge in the PROPER way to breed dogs, junping into the deep end of the pool, THEN realizing they cant swim, endangering their own life as well as anyone that may try to save them from thieir own mistake, and for what glorified purpose.... Then I distanced myself from the post because I was soooooo upset over the incident and the missed/ignored opportunities by this poster to get educated BEFORE he proceeded with such jouful abandon to "make his little lady happy" .....then there is my pet peeve of a "fuzzy and warm"feeling, glorifying the op's cause by addressing OTHER members posts, rather than addressing the poster, chastising and correcting how another member should be thinking/addressing the op.....but the thing that really was off setting to me was the crude way this unfortunate little lady was so "lovingly" referred to as perhaps being "preggers" and possibly "knocked up". I personally find those terms, used in ANY situation, as crude, rude, degrading, and offensive, when used by ANYONE....but when used by anyone with any experience in "medical field", this is IMO, totally unacceptable. Shy is NOT a "horedog" (purposelly misspelled to pass censorship), she is a little lady that has been put in an unfortunate position. But Rhetts-momma nailed exactly what I assumed I was the only one thinking.....