I always let the heating pad on low and out it under the whelping box with newspapers in between. I left it until they could move off of it by them selves. Make sure the mom can move to a spot in the whelping box if she gets too warm. Funny how I'm always afraid to use a heating pad all night, yet leave one on for a month straight under puppies. lol Kind of sad. I just spayed my last breeding female. We travel more now and have fallen in love with the smaller yorkies who can go with us. We have place our larger females, except one who is our daughters officially now. |