Kennel secrets - how to breed, exhibit, and mannage dogs (1904) (14750320186)

Identifier: kennelsecretshow00perr (find matches)
Title: Kennel secrets : how to breed, exhibit, and mannage dogs
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Perry, Joseph Franklin, 1846-
Subjects: Dogs Dogs -- Diseases
Publisher: Boston : Little, Brown and Co.
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University



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evere constipation is very rare inpregnant bitches that are healthy and have been wellcared for. Therefore let the reader put away this frozen notionthat the bowels of all about to whelp demand interference,and that delivery will be difficult unless they are emptiedby artificial means. He can accept as a fact that onlywhen they are impacted with dry, hard waste, or, in otherwords, only when very severe constipation exists will theyobstruct the birth of the puppies ; also, that all ordinaryaccumulations will be readily expelled in the violentstraining induced by the labor pains long before thefirst little one is sent into the world. He can accept,moreover, that no sound mother that is allowed ampleexercise, is properly fed and has free access to good whole-some drinking water is likely to be troubled with consti-pation sufficient to retard labor. But should one so suffer,an injection of half a cupful of warm sweet oil or a pintof warm water is the only remedy he will be requiredto use.
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CHAPTER IV. TREATMENT OF THE MOTHER. Usually on the day before whelping, but in some casesa little earlier, there occurs a very noticeable change inthe bitch, characterized by nervousness, occasional shiver-ing no matter how warm her quarters, dejection — asevident from her listless movements and the grieved andrather despondent expression of her eyes — and a disposi-tion to slink away when at liberty to do so, or a reluctanceto come when called if in her kennel. She also manifestsunwonted concern about her bedding, which she frequentlyscratches and tumbles about. These signs are produced by the first pains of labor,and when they appear the chances are that if all is wellthe whelping will begin within twenty-four hours. The disposition to steal away to a retired corner hasbeen accepted by some as a singular impression pro-duced by parturition, and unmistakable evidence that thebitch urgently desires solitude while it is occurring, con-sequently they reason that she should be isola