My Dog is in Season!?

Question

My dog is on her first season. she is swallon and and not really herself. Is is still ok to take her out for her walks? i alwasy have a male dog. at the moemnt he wont let anyone touch her he is patecting her" if you like. is ok around her if he goes out for walks and just in general.

Thank you for your help!

Yes we wont them to breed! but as its her first season i was concered x thanx again

Answer 1

Well if the Male isn't neutered you'd better keep them seperate or you'll soon be hearing the pitter patter of tiny paws! OF COURSE he's protecting her, he doesn't want any other male to mate with her, He sees her as his mate and as soon as she's ready he'll try and mate her himself!
I'd be very careful where and when you walk her and make sure she's on lead. If she's only a small dog it's best to carry her some distance from your house first. Male dogs will otherwise follow her scent back and you'll have them camping outside your door!
Please consider having her spayed, unless she is intended to be shown and bred from! It's far better health wise and there are millions of unwanted dogs all looking for good homes without adding more by keeping whole dogs! Accidents happen all too often!

edit, Just seen you want to breed, 1 I dont think you are experienced enough. 2 She still needs to be kept away from the male, she's still far too young to be having Puppies! She should be at least into her second year before mating. 3 I'd do a lot of research before going ahead. Good puppies take time and money to produce and health and blood-lines are important!

Answer 2

I just want to correct some misinformation posted by another answerer.

Sixteen million dogs will not be euthanized this year. That number is blown way out of proportion. Even the HSUS admits that only 2-4 million cats and dogs get put down. So I'm not sure where your figure of 16 million is coming from.

Also, not all of those 2-4 million cats and dogs are put down because there aren't enough homes for them. They are put down for many reasons and to be honest, overpopulation is truly a myth perpetuated by groups with an agenda to have all human and animal interaction ceased.

Cats and god are put down for health reasons, behavior reasons, age reasons and owner requests. Also, there aren't many puppies or kittens in the system leading credence to the fact that overpopulation is a myth. Sure, there are some, but not enough to call it a crisis. The good majority of your animals in shelters are sub-adults and adults that had a home and were given up for some reason. Some of those reasons are understandable and some not so.

To the question asker. Your best bet is to keep them separated until she is out of heat which generally lasts 21 days. It's not as hard to do as you may think and keeping your female intact isn't irresponsible as others would have you believe.

When you have time, read this and you can make an informed decision on whether or not you want alter your dogs.

http://www.naiaonline.org/pdfs/LongTermHealthEffectsOfSpayNeuterInDogs.pdf

EDIT:

Stina, I'm sorry, but I won't take the word of an animal rights activist. That's exactly the source of that video. They have an agenda and that agenda is to stop all human/animal interaction.

I care about the number because it's false. I also only really care about our backyard, not some other country's backyard. That's one of the reasons I am so against the war, that and other reasons of course.

In the states, the number is 2-4million. We do not have an overpopulation problem, but rather an owner retention problem. Education is the key. Educate people on common issues that come up with their pets. Then owners will retain their pets far more.

EDIT: The good 'ole go work in a shelter for a few days statement.

Stina, I have worked in a SPCA/Shelter before. A Kill shelter. What I saw was that the SPCA didn't want to adopt to many people, mainly families with children under the age of 16 (talk about cutting off a fair share of a market). This SPCA cried about how it wasn't adopting out enough animals and that it had to euthanize so many. All I could do was ask "I wonder why".

No, I don't call it overpopulation when it's an owner retention problem. These dogs had a home. Read that again, they had a home. That's what we call owner retention or lack there of.

I also don't recall telling this person to breed. I told them to keep them seperated.

I did however say to read that link that I provided. It's an eye opener for sure, but I doubt you would agree with anything it says.

Answer 3

No unless you want an unwanted pregnancy it's not ok to take her out for walks were other dogs are present. It's best to walk a bitches in season, early mornings and late at night, on the lead. You should not breed from her untill she's at least 2 years old as this will give her time to physically and mentally mature.

Answer 4

Normally a dog stays "in heat" for 3 weeks, and usually it's in that middle week that they'll accept a male. She'll probably be a little moody at first....but just be careful. I used to work for a vet, and he's always said that it's much more better for a dog to past its first season before breeding. The vet had said because it lets them mature physically before their first set of puppies. Your male will also protect her, cause right now he figures "she's mine to breed".....so he's just following his instincts. He also may be a little more aggressive during this time, as I'm sure his hormones are wild too. It may be a good idea to keep any children away from them. Best of luck to you.

Answer 5

i personally dont take my female dogs out when they are in season, as a male dog can smell her from a long way a way, and things could get hard, so for safety for her and you let her use the garden.

When they are in season, yes she will be swollen and tied, feels unhappy with her safe, just like we feel under the weather during period times.

If you are going to get her sprayed then you need to wait 3 months after her season as finished. If you want to breed, you need to do lots of research, it is not a case of him mating with her, there is lots of time, decation, money etc needed during and after pups are born. Think very careful into this.

Answer 6

No if she is in heat and you take her around other males this will cause a dog fight between males also you could get bit by some stray dog coming after her so if you are planning on breeding with your male this is to young keep her away from all male dogs till she is older

Answer 7

Why do you want them to breed? Did you know there are over 27 MILLION (<---that is MILLION) dogs in need of a good home and 16 MILLION of those dogs will be euthanized this year because there just isn't a good home for them. This includes puppies and purebreds!

Please do the responsible thing and fix your dog. There is absolutely no reason for you to want your dog to have puppies. Do you understand the amount of work that goes into breeding? The amount of money it costs to feed the mouths of all your pups AND mother AND father? Do you know the amount of commitment it takes to socialize and housebreak each of the puppies?

And how the hell do you plan on finding reliable homes forth them? If 27 million dogs can't find a home, you can bet your puppies will have a hard time as well.

EDIT:
nanookadenord- My statistics are world wide, not simply in the United States. We have people from other countries on Yahoo Answers as well as Americans. In any case, anytime the number of dogs being put to sleep, whether their issue is behavior or overpopulation, includes the world "million", there is a problem. If there weren't as many homeless dogs, there would be more time for the ones with special needs. Then we wouldn't need to euthanize any!

Video stating a few WORLD WIDE statistics (admittedly, it may be a tiny bit exaggerated, but when the number is this big, who the hell cares?):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0KucYppXO0

EDIT: 2-4 million isn't a population problem? As long as there are animals that die in shelters because they cannot find a home or find someone who is willing to give them the time they need to heal from abusive/neglectful owners, I will push adoption over breeders or puppy mills any day.

And you also cannot deny the existence of puppy mills. Breeding for money? When there are dogs and cats who die simply because someone prefers a cute cuddly puppy, which they will later abandon because it chewed the furniture? My point is, we don't need more cats or dogs. We need more people who are willing to adopt. Telling someone, like the asker above, it would be okay to breed their dog, especially since they are offering nothing to whatever breed the dog is and have absolutely no clue how to deal with a dog in heat, let alone a dog with puppies, is pure irresponsible. The world and are country alike have a problem. If you give people answers on this website, you should expect to be answering questions for people both in and out of the United States. What is so bad about informing a person from another country about the proper way to treat their pet?

I am a firm believer that every dog already on this earth deserves a home before any unborn puppy. Wouldn't it be fantastic if shelters were used as "behavior modification clinics" rather than a place to keep unwanted cats and dogs?

Just try working in a shelter for a few days. Then come back and tell me that we don't have a population problem.

Edit: Any shelter with an age restriction on the children in families has a particular reason for that age restriction. They aren't doing it just to piss people off, and they shouldn't eliminate it just because it will allow more dogs to be adopted out. Talk about owner retention. The third most popular reason for surrendering a dog, other than "No Time" and "Moving" is because the dog nipped at, or jumped on, or chased after, or growled at a kid in the family. The owners just fail to mention that it was the KID who punched/kicked/beat/took the bone away from the dog.

Under 16 does sound a bit extreme, but I trust that was either exaggerated by you or the shelter. Most places are Under 7.

The "No Children Under __" rule is to protect the dog and prevent it from ever having to see another shelter for as long as it lives.

And yes, if the link you have there was the one to the Humane Society website stating the statistics on abandoned dogs in America, I did see it. I agree. As I said before, my statistics were world wide. The only country with a bigger dog problem than ours is China. I guess they're taking care of that by shooting every free-running dog they see. But that is for another day.

Answer 8

Honestly, if you need to ask questions like these about a dog in her first heat. You have no business breeding. Please, do yourself, your dogs and the pet population in general a huge favor and spay and neuter your dogs. If you think that you are going make easy money by breeding you are far from the truth. Breeding, whelping, raising, socializing, etc. are not easy things to be accomplished. Not to mention the cost of your first shots, check-up and deworming (things that really must be done prior to selling your pups). Have you considered the possibilities of your ***** not having an easy pregnancy, what if she can't deliver on her own, what if she decides she won't nurse, won't care for the pups, what will you do if she is making enough milk for her pups? There are so many more aspects of this to consider.

As I said if you are uncertain of how to handle a dog in heat for a walk, you really need to reconsider breeding.

Answer 9

well you certainly do not want her being bred... You can still walk her..as a matter a fact it might be a good idea because a female in heat sometimes gets a little anxious and the walking helps relieve that... you can take her in and have her spayed..do not even wait for the heat to be over. No sense in risking unwanted pups.~~~~~~EDIT

the heat is not the call of the wild...every male in town is not going to come knocking on your door to mate your girl..we attend dog shows with our girls in the prime of their heat... it bothers the boy in line behind them..nothing else....BUT
it does not sound like these dogs are probably candidates to be bred...if you want to have a litter because you think it is fun..you are wrong..it is alot of work..and man are puppies poop machines..leave the breeding to the people that know what they are doing

Answer 10

You don't want her to be mated on her first season, she ideally needs to be 2 or 3 years old. Your male dog needs to be kept separate or he will mate with her as soon as she's ready, usually in the third week of the season. You can buy sprays and tablets to stop dogs being attracted to her. If you take her out as she is you are likely to have all the neighbourhood dogs sitting on your doorstep!