unplanned puppies!help

lisar201

Hi Guys I need some advice,My friends one yr old dog is after having 7 puppies last night!(myself and my friend both realise she is way to young)!Totally Totally unplanned (the dog actually got out of the pen by accident when she was in heat),Just wanted to know if there is anything in particular my friend should be doing?As she is quite concerned as her dog is still a pup herself,Everything seems ok just mammy and the couple of the pups seem to have the runs.is this normal? Any advice on caring for them is much apprecitated!! thanks By the way mammy is a x between a springer and a jack russell and by looking at the pups we think daddy is the sheep dog from down the rd!(and she will be neutred asap!)

mymo

Has your friend had the dog checked by a vet at any stage?
Make sure mum has plenty of food and water, keep the area clean around the pups, mum should keep them clean.
Are they all feeding ok?
Don't think its normal for the bitch and pups to have the runs, but don't have much experience, hopefully someone else can help.
I would at least call a vet, ask a few questions maybe get them all checked over. The vet will advise care for them all too.

Sigma Force

Better off seeking vets advice it's hard for people to give advice unless they see for themselves. I would started advertising for homes now because it will take a long time to home them just put ready in 10 wks.

lisar201

I was on the phone to the vet last night during the birth descirbing everything to her and she said everything seemed fine nothing unusual,Pups are feeding fine and mammy is cleaning them all,Runs have stopped altoghter it was just one of the pups!!and the vet said he might have just fed too much!

LucyBliss

Our rescue dog Rosie was pregnant when we got her and it was a complete bolt out of the blue when we found out. Like your friend's dog, she is very young. She had them in a cardboard box we put in the corner of the sitting room - she chose the corner and if I hadn't put in the box, she probably would have had them on top of the backpack I had in that corner! We moved the pups to Rosie's crate a few days later when the box was in danger of becoming a shanty town and I covered the crate with a tablecloth to give them some peace and quiet. Rosie did the rest, she was a great mother. She took care of the six pups and we just gave her lots of rest and nourishment.
We took them all to the vets when they were a few weeks old. Certainly their eyes were open and they were getting mobile at that stage.

One thing I will say is if the dog is indoors, don't be surprised or upset if she has some piddle accidents over the next while. I didn't realise until Rosie just how it affects the bladder of the dog. She just wouldn't get out quick enough and it would pour out of her. It was a pain to clean up but it didn't mean that she was losing her house training, just that her poor body was in a bit of a state after pushing out six little bodies! And it sorted itself out.

It can be a lot of work and responsiblity to get the pups ready to be homed but I found it so much fun as well. It was so lovely to see these little creatures develop and learn about the world around them. Ours slept in the crate in the corner of the living room the whole time so they got well socialised. There wasn't a minute that they weren't picked up and kissed by someone. But until they were up and about and Rosie was more than happy to let other people take over, we just left her to it.

Oh, and one more thing: heat is very important for them right now. They can't generate their own warmth which is why they huddle together. So keep their surroundings as warm as you can. Ours were born in June 2008 and I had one of those rotating heaters in front of them from time to time. They would stretch out as soon as the heat hit them. The humans in the family were not so happy; my grandmother thought she was dying at one point, the sweat was pouring out of her!
But they thrived which was the important thing.

Best of luck to your friend with the new pups. If you can post photos sometime, I would love to see them!

lisar201

LucyBliss wrote: »

Our rescue dog Rosie was pregnant when we got her and it was a complete bolt out of the blue when we found out. Like your friend's dog, she is very young. She had them in a cardboard box we put in the corner of the sitting room - she chose the corner and if I hadn't put in the box, she probably would have had them on top of the backpack I had in that corner! We moved the pups to Rosie's crate a few days later when the box was in danger of becoming a shanty town and I covered the crate with a tablecloth to give them some peace and quiet. Rosie did the rest, she was a great mother. She took care of the six pups and we just gave her lots of rest and nourishment.
We took them all to the vets when they were a few weeks old. Certainly their eyes were open and they were getting mobile at that stage.

One thing I will say is if the dog is indoors, don't be surprised or upset if she has some piddle accidents over the next while. I didn't realise until Rosie just how it affects the bladder of the dog. She just wouldn't get out quick enough and it would pour out of her. It was a pain to clean up but it didn't mean that she was losing her house training, just that her poor body was in a bit of a state after pushing out six little bodies! And it sorted itself out.

It can be a lot of work and responsiblity to get the pups ready to be homed but I found it so much fun as well. It was so lovely to see these little creatures develop and learn about the world around them. Ours slept in the crate in the corner of the living room the whole time so they got well socialised. There wasn't a minute that they weren't picked up and kissed by someone. But until they were up and about and Rosie was more than happy to let other people take over, we just left her to it.

Oh, and one more thing: heat is very important for them right now. They can't generate their own warmth which is why they huddle together. So keep their surroundings as warm as you can. Ours were born in June 2008 and I had one of those rotating heaters in front of them from time to time. They would stretch out as soon as the heat hit them. The humans in the family were not so happy; my grandmother thought she was dying at one point, the sweat was pouring out of her!
But they thrived which was the important thing.

Best of luck to your friend with the new pups. If you can post photos sometime, I would love to see them!

thank you soo much!!I tell my friend and i'll try to get some pics up!!!