AMEN!!!!! I have heard of dogs climbing wood fences to get to a bitch..

Congrats? Are you serious????

as bob barker and now drew carey say:

SPAY AND NEUTER YOUR PETS!!!!

If you have a female dog that is capable of having puppies and an intact male anywhere near each other you can count on an accident happening sooner or later. Since the mom is an outdoor dog you should fix her as soon as the pups are weaned and neuter your male in the meantime.

I hope you find good forever homes for the pups. Please post your pics as soon as you can.

Aside from my thoughts on this "accidental breeding", this struck me as so cruel. The yorkie stays inside and the cockers stay outside, WTH!

I don't believe in making any dog live outside, unless they are working dogs. But especially small dogs. It just boils my blood. And the attitude of the dog getting "knocked up" really makes me sick.

Now what will happen to these puppies? be raised outside no doubt!

I have to agree. I have a cocker and no way would she be an outside dog. They are small dogs and need to be kept inside.

I don't believe in outside dogs either. I just don't see the point. Most outside dogs get very little attention. What's the point of having the dog if you don't get to enjoy it?

how over dramatic..someone has to start something in every thread that has puppies/pregnancy etc....

this stuff happens all the time sure it can be unpleasant that there are tons of homeless pets out there but is it necessary to bomb on our own memebers when s^% happens?..if you couldnt say anything to help which i dont remember the op asking for it..then step aside to the next post instead of getting rude and changing the course of the ops thread

get over it and stop being so over dramatic..life sucks. sucky stuff happens all the time..you cant control it..you can make positive suggestions and do your part, but being ugly to someone doesnt get your point across

congrats on the new litter...please be careful when placing...
i do hope mama and babies are houses inside with this heat

my parents raised shelties every now an again never more then 4 shelties county rules are 3 per household..they (the dogs) have a house outside with electricity, running hot n cold water, a/c, heat, doggy doors, beds, crates, 2 large fenced in yards. and when they bred they had these nice dog houses where the tops opened and the puppies were housed and raised outside..and they came to play all the time..there is nothing wrong with a medium size dog outside in ok weather

Please spay your girl as soon as the vet says it is OK. A previous poster was right--you should assume that an unspayed female will eventually concieve pups, no matter what you do.....

There are too many unwanted dogs in the world. We don't need to be making more.

We'll have to disagree on this one too. Even though "sucky stuff" may happen, there is something one can do to control these types of situations - spay/neuter your pets!

When there is a dog in heat, a fence doesn't always stop them. We had a 8 ft fence and a German Shepherd managed to get over it to try to get to our female one time.

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My one and only experience delievering puppys with with a neighbors female.

I was there when the big dog crashed a wooden fence to get at her but too late to break them up, She delivered 2 puppies one dead and it was horrible. The female was so much smaller than the dog that jumped her and I'll never forget the screaming when the mating took place

a fence will NOT keep out a male in heat - believe me,

and digging UNDER them - or chewing holes - or finding loose boards....there's many ways a determined dog can get to a female in heat and they dont stop till their mission is accomplished

Hi, I didn't mean to offend anyone. By "outside" I mean enclosed safely within our yard with her warm blanketed doghouse. I can assure you she is well looked after and very loved and so are her little puppies. She isn't alone as we have another female who also lives outside in her own doghouse. We love our dogs!!!

Wow I'm really sorry to have offended everyone. I can assure you that our dogs are loved and taken care of. I just wanted to share my story because we have owned Princess for 6years and never has this happened. I didn't know that this was possible! I made the wrong assumption that because we didn't own a male dog she wouldn't get pregnant.
Once her puppies are grown up and placed. We will have both our girls spayed. I do not abuse my dogs. I love them and care for them yet some of your comments have made me feel like an animal hater. :(