I recently had the need to have a caesarean section done on one of the Irish Setters.I haven't had the need for this for many years. At the time of the surgery the puppies displayed no sign of breathing in spite of the efforts of everyone.The Vet , his team and myself worked on the puppies for a considerable time,some a half hour latter were still only gasping intermittently. I would have long given up myself but was urged on to "keep rubbing" We managed to get 10 of 11 going and they are thriving.I think the lesson for me was don't give up just keep rubbing and have Doprin available if needed. Cheers Greg
Greg Browne_Eireannmada Setters and Cavaliers [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patricia Powers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2001 1:59 PM Subject: Re: [CKCS-L] Responses to stud dog service > Chris, > She appeared to have the puppies well positioned to whelp naturally. I took > her to visit the vet because it had been 9 hours since her water broke and > no contractions or puppy. Of course, on the way to the vet she started > delivering the first one in her crate, the head barely presented beyond her > nose when we arrived. He helped her with that one and she was a perfect > looking ruby girl(no white) who never took her first breathe. He worked on > her for 5 minutes massaging her heart but it wasn't meant to be. He felt > all the puppies and the position of the next on which was fine and gave her > oxitocyn misspell? to help with contractions and said if she does not > present the puppies within the next hour, we have to do a c-section. She > only had 1 contraction in the parking lot and 1 40 minutes later. I waited 1 > hour and 15 minutes before taking her back to the vet for surgery. The total > were 5 puppies with one DOA, so 4 resulted from that breeding. Her 2 1/2 > year old daughter did a beautiful job of delivering 7 puppies within 2 hours > and I was there to assist! The hard part will be deciding who stays and > letting the rest go to their prospective home! It would be so easy to keep > them all, especially since I have my first tri among the wholecolors! > Decisions decisions, what is a girl to do? > > Thanks for your thoughts. > > Patricia Powers Pratt Cavaliers > -----Original Message----- ========================================================= "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.
