yorkietalkjilly | 07-10-2019 05:08 PM | Don't know hardly a thing about the subject but dog nature will likely kick in and she will recognize the pups are in trouble, need her, want to nurture, nurse, clean, stimulate to toilet & mother them. Or she could viciously try to hurt one of them for moving toward her teats, sensing a phantom threat to her own recent pups, whether there or gone.
You might wrap each pup in the same freshly-laundered hand towel, wipe its eyes, mouth, perianal & genitourinary opening area of the pups with one side, then rub each pups side/back fur, tummy, feet and head/inside ear leather, with the other side, place in a sealed plastic bag and take it out in front of her and present it to her and see how she reacts. If she bristles, growls or avoids the towel, might not want to have pups near her. If she gets soft-acting - immediately gets all over that towel, sniffing, drooling, whimpering and pawing at it, incredibly interested, she likely would accept the pups. Then, you might present the absolutely healthiest one to her in a small cage, crate, something she can easily see and smell into, while she's leashed and take the rest from there, depending upon her reaction. If you do eventually introduce the pups to her, be sure to sit by, hold her head if you can during the first several nursings and always have a big towel nearby to grab, cover her with should she suddenly get upset, all the while somebody sitting nearby ready to save the pup, wrap it in its own towel and quickly remove it. I long ago had a bitch that had a singleton that she deeply resented after delivering the big thing herself with what help I could give(back in those days no vet ER's in the middle of the night & ours was ill), and she nursed it the first 2 weeks under protest, growling and trying to get at the puppy! Had to sit with her, hold her head, feed her treats and talk her through each and every nursing session until the two FINALLY bonded. After that, they were inseparable, and the little Peke became the best mother ever.
This is just based on what I know of dog basic nature, common reactions but the effect of hormones, pregnancy, whelping/pain, puppy-nursing/rearing on a bitch and her possibly sore teats are something I know nothing about nor how those issues might affect your bitch's interaction with these pups. You might Google 'surrogate nursing canine bitch' or similar phrases and see what you come up with. I did and there's lots of history of surrogates accepting, nursing puppies but no guide of how to test, etc., that I could see. Good luck and let us know what happens! |