Gemy.
And again I keep hearing "let's move on, accidents happen, and I want to focus on what I want to know and now."
And again I say - Price of admission Bryce is
Open Dialog. You are not the owner of the conversation. You may have started it but you don't own it. In your own home you can dismiss people and send them packing with a quick chastising, but it doesn't work that way here.
Further if you want to learn anything more for your next time which you obviously are set on doing
and if you want advice from any of these people about how to care for the puppies now - like you were asking because clearly you haven't done this before - you might want to consider respecting the advice you get a little more.
There's a lot of valuable information here but you seem so intent on focusing on HOW people should respond that you're not going to hear it, and further you're not going to get it from those that really know what to do.
Humility. Humbleness. Grace. If you want to talk about manners, and decency and respect, those are also words you might consider for yourself. Just my opinion of course.
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Originally Posted by bryce87i  Bjh - Because not only did I make sure they were kept apart nearly the whole day, but I also made sure she always had a diaper on,(a) which I now understand isn't the best way to avoid pregnancy, but it certainly helped during every single other heat, until this one when the boy slipped out of the room at 4am when I got up for work, and paired up with her in the middle of the night after her diaper somehow had fallen off. So I'm tired of those who say it was no accident, or that I didn't take precautions, because I did. Accidents do happen people -
(a) you now understand? What vet told you diapers are a good choice to prevent pregnancy? Did you even ask a vet?
(b) every single other heat? Interesting how many did she have before the mistake mating?
(c) a boy slipping out of a room seems to indicate that he was not in a crate, and probably not the female. How then did you protect the two from mating? If both were out of crates, how pray tell did you expect to protect them from mating?
(d) Your precautions were obviously in-adequate and any repro vet or good breeder if you had asked should have told you how to keep this female safe from mating.
As I have said yet twice before on this thread. Accidents are like hurricanes, tornadoes, fires, heart attacks et al, truly those events we can't pre -plan for that may interfere with our ability to keep our dogs safe from mating. MOst everything else is the "breeders" fault, and you are the breeder here.
You had two intact dogs. You had the obligation to understand fully how to safeguard your female from mating. Furthermore your vet should have schooled you in this, once he/she realized you decided to keep your female intact.
So yes this breeding was no ACCIDENT. It was your failure to plan to safeguard your female most especially because you had a full male in your home. You might like to think it was an accident, but if you fail to find out all you can, you fail to plan how to safeguard your female based on best education, then you PLAN to FAIL.
Just admit you were a dunce and made a mistake! |