Greg,
Good sound advice. Where do you live, maybe you could bring me your next
foal! I use to have four Tennessee Walkers... someday I will again!
Patricia Powers
Pratt Cavaliers
Beaufort, S.C.
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From: Greg Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, July 19, 2001 3:18 AM
Subject: [CKCS-L] C Sections
>I am also surprised at the discussions about elective caesarean sections.
Whelping is such a natural process that it should rarely present
difficulties. I have whelped litters of Setters up to 19 and regularly have
litters of 14. In Cavaliers my largest litter has been 9 with the average
being
>6. Along the way there has been the odd single puppy but I see this just
part of the normal spread of numbers. Some bitches have whelped within a few
hours and others have gone for twenty four hours.The interval between
puppies varies enormously from minutes to hours all part of the normal range
I would expect.
>Cavaliers tend to do a lot more nesting than Setters often doing frantic
preparation for days,others simply curl up in the whelping box and present
you with a puppy with no warning.Whelping here is low key, low intervention
in a darkened quiet warm room.I regularly whelp litters for others and have
whelped not only Setters and Cavaliers but in the last twelve months
Dobermans Poodles Pugs Goldens and Labradors.Most owners should settle down
with a good wine, novel and sit back relax and enjoy.Thirty years on I still
marvel at the whole experience.Try foaling on a frosty evening you suddenly
forget how tired you are when the foal blinks and nuzzles into you while
trying to stand on wobbly legs that seem so long.I think I have had four
caesarean sections in thirty years.
>Cheers Greg
>
>Greg Browne_Eireannmada Setters and Cavaliers
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