2013年9月20日星期五

Symptoms of pregnancy in dogs

If you have a dog and you’ve decided to make breeding for the first time you are wondering how you know if your pet has already pregnant. Look out for in order to know if any of the typical symptoms.


Symptoms of pregnancy in dogs


For starters, the breasts of the animal will swell and they will be done a lot more visible when the dog be on the verge of comply the month of pregnancy. Also, approximately on the same days, your pet will begin to have vaginal discharge.




As time passes gestation, notice how your dog’s stomach bulges more and is gaining weight. The pregnancy is now very apparent when your pet reaches approximately 50 days of gestation. In this period of time, some dogs lose the hunger and even show symptoms of depression.




If you find that your dog has any of these symptoms it is advisable to take her to the vet to determine with safety a possible pregnancy and even to detect the existence of a problem. The vet will test to detect in the bitch there relaxin, a hormone that occurs only in pregnant animals. But this way you can not tell how many puppies will be born.


To determine the number of puppies that come, a veterinarian can be palpated the abdomen the dog but the most reliable test is ultrasound, a noninvasive technique that can detect any number of offspring that are already at 28 days of gestation.


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