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02-19-2009, 11:55 AM | #1 |
YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Longwood, FL
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| Need some advice I have everything prepared for my litter to arrive. I would like to ask a question. I am planning on keeping water and food down for the mother in the whelping box. I had a litter of puppies before that would try to get into the water and food dishes. What do you breeders use to keep this from happening? I have changed from a wire crate, to the wood whelping box. It has a tile floor so that it will be easier for clean up, and a potty area with a door that can be closed until we start the potty training. I don't want anything to happen to the babies, and as you know they get pretty mobile fast. I am wanting something that I can keep up off of the ground, and high enough that they can't climb into it. Please share pictures of what you have if you have any that are available. I can post pictures of my whelping box later this evening. |
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02-19-2009, 12:06 PM | #2 | |
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02-19-2009, 12:47 PM | #3 |
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| I agree, the food and water should be kept outside the whelping box. I use a bottomless whelping box so I can just sit it on top of the bedding so the pups won't get lost in the bedding. I have a heating pad under 1/2 of the whelping box. The whelping box is in an x-pen so the mom can get out of the whelping box and get to her food, water and pee pads. Once the puppies are around 3 1/2 to 4 weeks old I will remove the whelping box and increase their area so they have bedding on one end, food and water and pee pads. I have a board dividing the x-pen so mom can get away from the pups when she needs to. |
02-19-2009, 06:00 PM | #4 |
YT Addict Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: in the beautiful USA
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| ~I use a large dog cage and inside toward the back is a good size plastic storage box with the puppy in it (tall enough so the puppy cant get out). The dish I use for water/food is the kind you can screw on and make it as high as you wish. But as soon as my puppy can get out of the storage box, I remove it and give free roam of the cage and will use one of those small two-sided dishes. I cant send pics because it always says they are to large and I don't know how to re-size. |
02-20-2009, 07:46 AM | #5 |
YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Longwood, FL
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| thanks so much for the helpful information. I appreicate it very much. |
02-20-2009, 08:39 AM | #6 |
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| The whelping box should be constructed so that the mother can get out freely (for more reasons that one), but the pups cannot. Leave the water and food outside of the box. She can get to it when she needs/wants to. |
02-20-2009, 08:43 AM | #7 |
YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Longwood, FL
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| Thanks, I will be doing exactly that after reading these posts. Thanks everyone for the helpful information. |
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