Phyllis twisted my arm so much I finally bought a whelping nest for my last
litter. Before they were born I put down newspapers so I could clean up between
puppies, but once they were born I took the papers out and they stayed on the
plain plastic surface. I've never had such a contented litter, mom and pups.
When they were a couple of days old I set up a box upstairs with heat pad on one
side, fleeces, etc, so they (and I) could sleep upstairs but they were so fussy,
nobody could settle, I packed them all up and put them back on the nest
downstairs and all breathed a sigh of relief and immediately went to sleep.
I did start putting smallish fleeces in after 10 days or so so they could get a
better footing without getting too buried.
Took it out at around 3-4 weeks when the raised floor permitted one of the babes
to climb out of the box.
-- Joanne Opel
Kilbrook
Ringwood, NJ
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Judi Geldermann wrote:
> Okay, Myra - I understand that Laura and Phyllis use nothing in the nest
> itself - just expose the black plastic - but, when you say you cover the
> entire surface of 36 X 36 with an incontinent pad, do you mean you also cover
> the plastic nest?? And, also, where do you purchase these pads? Are they
> like the vetbeds? I do have the Scott's Whelphing Nest and have tried using
> it a couple of times, but just have a difficult time thinking that Mom can
> possibly be comfortable on that surface and that the babies don't slip and
> slide around. Wish I could witness a litter of someone else's using the nest
> to convince me!!
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