Thursday, August 4, 2011
Does anyone know of any good books that are accessible through a library about hand rearing puppies?
My friend has a ten year old heeler/rat terrier ***** that accidentally got out and got bred by the male heelers that they have. (And yes, though I've begged and goaded and all else, they won't get their dogs fixed!!!) She was bred twice that we know of. (absent minded father left her out with the others) I want to know the probability of her getting pregnant and carrying pups to birth. But I also already know that she had trouble with her last litter, she nearly gave up pushing with a pup half out. I don't think that they will have the knowledge enough to save the pups if she dies during labor. I volunteered myself to raise the pups should that happen, (yes I know, I'm freaking insane to do such a thing) But I don't want the pups to die because they are incompetent about raising and rearing dogs. Also it doesn't help that I'm pretty sure that all of the adult dogs are carrying the parvo virus, because their last few litters had it and most died. (and sadly they don't know anything about parvo so they didn't take them to a vet and gave the puppies ice cream to combat dehydration. (It pisses me off so much, but I can only do so little when they don't listen to me) So in preparation I'm figuring things out just in case, but I need help to do so.
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