How long is the female dog period and will I be aware that she is ready to mate? Are there symptoms of heat?

Answer 1

The female dog "period" lasts anywhere from 1-3 weeks. The symptoms include your dog bleeding on the floor. She might also seem to want to escape the house. You could also get some male dog visitors that bark and want to come in your house. Believe me, when your dog is in heat, you can tell. Ours has been in heat for the past few weeks and she's very temperamental and doesn't like to be scratched on her lower back area. We've gotten a few dogs hanging around the house as well.
Here is a very informative website that you can use if you have more questions.
http://www.petcaretips.net/dogs_in_heat.html

Hope this helps!

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How long is the female dog period and will I be aware that she is ready to mate? Are there symptoms of heat?

Answer 3

If you are not aware how long she is in HEAT for, it's very likely you will not be aware when she is ready to breed.
They are in heat for approx 21 days... Not at all if you have them spayed.. There are no real symptoms of heat other than swelling and blood.. Oh yeah and the males that show up to your house and pee all over everything.. And the blood all over everything in your house.. And sometimes a short snippy attitude around other dogs ... And theres the fact that it's hard on females to go thru eat.. Hard on their system.. and they have great odds of developing pyometra.. Otherwise it's not bad at all.. Oh yeah .. if you have an intact male.. he acts the fool for over 3 weeks..

Answer 4

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Answer 5

I'm going to guess your a young kid and that you dont have a clue what your talking about. Females will go into heat any where from 6 months old to 14 months old depending on the breed of dog your have. It will last 22 days. durring that time the females will bleed and become a bit off her normal self. No dog should be bred before their 2nd year. Dogs under 2 make terrible moms and will usually either reject the pups or they will smother then because their owners dont know how to prevent it.
Dogs whelping is a tall order to do too. It is not for the novice to be handled. Much education is needed to be able to handle this correctly.

Spaying your girl now will not only preven unwated litters but make for a much better and healthier dog all around. No she doesnt need to have one litter either. Thats just not true!

Being a resposnible breed takes years of experience. So my advice to you is to get her spayed for her own health.
Leave breeding to those who dont have to ask on Yahoo!

Answer 6

Why are you wanting to breed your dog? Is she an exceptional specimen
of her breed, conforming closely to the breed standard? Has she any hard to
find virtues that would be a critical addition to the breed? Has she been
tested for genetic problems that can be passed on from the parents and does
she have an exceptional temperament? Has she been shown, and at least is on
her way to being a champion, if not already one?

If you want to bred and do it ethically, you must be committed to
learning all about your breed..its standard, its genetic diseases, the good,
the bad and the ugly. You must understand that your female could die. You
might have nothing but dead puppy bodies whether she lives or not. You might
have to pay for an emergency c-section to save her and/or the pups. If you
lose her, you are responsible for all the feeding of the pups, which will
require you to feed them every 1.5 to 2 hours. ALL hours, not just the
daylight ones. The puppies will poop 24/7, and this becomes your
responsibility to clean whether the mother survives to raise them or not.
The pups still need to be vet checked, vaccinated and dewormed no matter
what. When they reach certain stages of their lives, they need proper
socialization and guidance. They will be your responsibility at least for 8
weeks. After that 8 weeks, you are responsible to make sure they never wind
up homeless in a shelter or rescue. To ensure that, you will have to do
homechecks and make up contracts to be certain the new owners are going to
take care of them for life. You have to agree to always be available to take
back your puppies no matter what.

If you want to be a responsible breeder, look up your local breed
club, jump in and educate yourself. Listen to the advice of REPUTABLE
breeders and learn all you can about your dog. If you just wanna make
puppies to sell for lotsa money, don't bother. We have too many of those
already.

Answer 7

When she comes home with her AKC or UKC championship or working dog titles, gets her hips, knees or whatever certified, has all the other health screening done- then she is ready to mate- or you could just have her spayed now, enjoy having a wonderful pet who will be much less likely to get breast cancer, not get uterine infections, and not have to deal with unwanted puppies, males howling and prowling and peeing all over your front door- and someday, if you feel you need a puppy in your life to feel complete, you can rescue one!

Answer 8

This is not the forum to be asking breeding questions. You need to get a real life mentor to assist you in making the proper choices on this, one of which being if you should even breed your dog at all in the first place.

Answer 9

Why do you feel that you are qualified to breed when you have to ask such kindergarten questions? I am so sick of amateurs thinking that they are able to properly deal with mating, gestation and whelping with only the dunderheads of yahoo available to help them.
Get a book, get a clue, or spay your dog.

Answer 10

please get your pet de-sexed. you are not ready to breed your dog. so you know it's around 14 days, yes she will bleed and there will be heat coming from her (where the expression comes from) she will not be able to breed until at the very least the 3rd time she comes into heat.