Post by etomaria on May 25, 2024 17:41:32 GMT -5
Hi!
Our standard poodle just had her second litter, both parents purebred/registered poodles. Her first litter was eleven puppies and all healthy, though two were a little smaller and one huge.
This time around though, her eighth, tenth, and eleventh didn't make it. Apparently stillborn, but same size as everyone else, fully developed, just didn't start breathing despite rubbing and licking and attention.
Her first was born about 530 am, she had been whining for hours to go out and I let her out not realizing she was in labor (she had been restless and breathing heavily last night and I thought mayyybe, 63 days would have been 28 May) but when I saw no discharge, I figured safe to put her outside. Alas, first one born outside under the deck, before we brought them inside (against her wishes). That guy is totally fine though! So from 530ish til 1010-1015, seven healthy puppies, INSIDE! And then she got up and insisted on going outside. Thought perhaps she was done, and let her out but on a lead. After a while brought her back in, soon after she had delivered the eighth, who was limp with blueish ears and a lolling tongue. She licked and licked, I tried rubbing his belly, no reaction (breaths, heartbeats, none of that). Then a little later a smaller guy was born, alive and apparently healthy. Then a little later another just lile the first dead guy. Regular size, fully developed, just never started breathing. Here I noticed meconium all around under her tail. Wondering if maybe he was under some stress? Or perhaps a result of meconium aspiration? Or who knows.. Then nothing for a long while, a couple hours, she was sleeping away with no apparent labor signs, so ran to the store and came back to find a third dead pup!
Any ideas on this? I suppose unlikely we'll know for sure, but just seems quite the mortality rate, esp compared to the same size litter last time with everyone alive and well. Hate to think it'd be because of something we did/didn't do.
(She's always had more food than she'd eat throughout the pregnancy, or at least she would leave a portion of her evening meal often enough, though our outside dog would share as well.. she sleeps inside and goes out when sue wants. Of course water available always. Really nothing unusual I can think of, same lifestyle as her first pregnancy and whelping. A year between litters. Good weight, not skinny or fat. Dunno!)
Maria
Our standard poodle just had her second litter, both parents purebred/registered poodles. Her first litter was eleven puppies and all healthy, though two were a little smaller and one huge.
This time around though, her eighth, tenth, and eleventh didn't make it. Apparently stillborn, but same size as everyone else, fully developed, just didn't start breathing despite rubbing and licking and attention.
Her first was born about 530 am, she had been whining for hours to go out and I let her out not realizing she was in labor (she had been restless and breathing heavily last night and I thought mayyybe, 63 days would have been 28 May) but when I saw no discharge, I figured safe to put her outside. Alas, first one born outside under the deck, before we brought them inside (against her wishes). That guy is totally fine though! So from 530ish til 1010-1015, seven healthy puppies, INSIDE! And then she got up and insisted on going outside. Thought perhaps she was done, and let her out but on a lead. After a while brought her back in, soon after she had delivered the eighth, who was limp with blueish ears and a lolling tongue. She licked and licked, I tried rubbing his belly, no reaction (breaths, heartbeats, none of that). Then a little later a smaller guy was born, alive and apparently healthy. Then a little later another just lile the first dead guy. Regular size, fully developed, just never started breathing. Here I noticed meconium all around under her tail. Wondering if maybe he was under some stress? Or perhaps a result of meconium aspiration? Or who knows.. Then nothing for a long while, a couple hours, she was sleeping away with no apparent labor signs, so ran to the store and came back to find a third dead pup!
Any ideas on this? I suppose unlikely we'll know for sure, but just seems quite the mortality rate, esp compared to the same size litter last time with everyone alive and well. Hate to think it'd be because of something we did/didn't do.
(She's always had more food than she'd eat throughout the pregnancy, or at least she would leave a portion of her evening meal often enough, though our outside dog would share as well.. she sleeps inside and goes out when sue wants. Of course water available always. Really nothing unusual I can think of, same lifestyle as her first pregnancy and whelping. A year between litters. Good weight, not skinny or fat. Dunno!)
Maria