A friend of mine (no, honest, not me) recently whelped a bitch who had one normal sized puppy followed by a very large puppy born back legs and tail first. Size of pup meant he got stuck and after trying all she knew she had to get the vet to remove the by then dead dog puppy. He was followed by a very small pup, and subsequently a normal sized pup. Each pup had its own placenta.So out of four in the litter, two were within normal size limits, one huge, one tiny. So I'm wondering what can cause such discrepancies in size in whelps? Anyone got any ideas/facts/useful information on producing a nice even size of whelps in a litter?
Sheena Stevens Kilnshena Kavaliers Devon, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sheena, I had a gorgeous black/tan female that I had shown and bred her last year. Her water broke at about 8 pm and she was pacing, panting and nesting, but not delivering. This was on a Friday, the day after Thanksgiving. I called my vet at 10 pm and let him know what had happened and he said to bring her down for X-rays. He saw two very small puppies, which he felt were out of their sacks and one huge puppy that was in the sack. He felt that they had all died or were very near death. I told him to rush them into surgery to try to save them. Miraculously, all three came out alive but were one minute from death. We ended up having a gorgeous huge blenheim female with a thumbprint on her head we called her "Wonder Woman" and a little ruby boy and a blk/tan female. All were thriving and doing well but due to my trying too hard, I over fed the ruby with a bottle and he aspirated. I didn't know how to feed properly and could kick myself because he was doing so well and due to my inexperience lost him. It was really strange to see these two tiny little whole colors and this enormous blenheim. But the blk/tan female turned out to be a little spit fire. My vet has no idea what happened and he is board certified from Auburn with a great deal of knowledge. It was just a fluke I guess! By the way, I had her spayed due to geographic eye folds and placed her as a therapy dog, which worked out wonderful. You can see her on my website, "Portrait's Lady Diana." Cheryl Van Winkle www.pets4you.com/pages/portrait.html _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ========================================================= "Magic Commands": to stop receiving mail for awhile, click here and send the email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20NOMAIL to start it up gain click here: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20MAIL E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. Search the Archives... http://apple.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ckcs-l.html All e-mail sent through CKCS-L is Copyright 1999 by its original author. ========================================================= "Magic Commands": to stop receiving mail for awhile, click here and send the email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20NOMAIL to start it up gain click here: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20MAIL E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. Search the Archives... http://apple.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ckcs-l.html All e-mail sent through CKCS-L is Copyright 1999 by its original author.
