RE: Mastitis

2003-03-03 Thread Rose Tierney
Hi Bill, I had a bitch who developed mastitis very suddenly, she had a lot of milk and only two puppies so I had been adjusting her diet accordingly and expressing milk when I felt she was in danger of caking up this term means a hardening in the breast which makes it unattractive to newborns and

Re: Mastitis

2003-03-02 Thread Jeff Mary Chapdelaine - SnoBear berners
Bill, We encountered in one of our girls almost the same scenario you have discribed in your dog. It was just one breast, and the vet cultured it to find e-coli. At four weeks of age those puppies already have sharp teeth and we feel that a puppy punctured mom's breast, which in turn left it open