How Long is a Dog Pregnancy?
I don't think it is 9 months like a human. It seems like she just got pregnant. How is it so short? |
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| Roughly 2 months/nine weeks. Give or take. 63 days is given as a comfortable average if memory serves. By the time you can confirm pregnancy there really isn't that much more to go of it. This is a good thing. Who wants to live with a crabby bitch for nine months?  Most bitches don't go through the extreme mood swings and food cravings you see in their female human counterparts either. They just start to eat more towards the latter part of their pregnancy. Kristine |
| Yep, 63 days average, but gestation can range from 56 to 70 days. |
By day 70 if nothing was happening you would be rather concerned and your, OK, my  vet would be at your house to pick up your bitch for an emergency c-section...In fact, my vet would be having little fits by day 65 I expect. Most breeders/vets don't let them go very far over. With the advent of progesterone testing we can figure out time of conception with much greater accuracy than in the past so 70 days is probably more a left over from when you let the dogs figure it out for themselves and let them breed multiple times. Do you count from the first mating, the second, the third, if you got one???? On the flip side, it gets extremely exact when you do progesterone testing coupled with a surgical implant. Canine reproductive technology has come a long way and since most breeders don't breed much anymore, when you do breed you tend to try to work the odds in your favor to the best of your ability. Frozen semen from dogs who have been gone for a quarter of a century, fresh chilled and extended floating around the world....Ah, yes, the magic of Fedex  Kristine |
Mad Dog wrote: On the flip side, it gets extremely exact when you do progesterone testing . Canine reproductive technology has come a long Kristine It certainly has, my example was Brie first time around no progesterone testing and 3 good matings, nothing. Next time she came into heat, progesterone testing, one as they say "Hump" next day took her back for a repeat mating and neither were interested in each other and we could not get them together. Thought OH NO, but that one hump was at the exact right time with her in full ovulation and low and behold 9 puppies but 8 live ones, last one we lost as could not get it going after working on it for 45 minutes. Having the mating dates too also helps determine when they are due to whelp. Brie came on the exact day of her due date. Frozen semen amazes me and the technology is getting better and better there for a result, did go that route years ago with Kelsey and using her Grandfathers frozen popsicles, but no luck and we are talking 10 years ago. The technology is getting better with more better results for getting a bitch into whelp. Also opens up the genetic gene pool more world wide. Instead of importing a dog you can so much easier bring in the Frozen semen, especially here because of our Quaranteen restrictions. |
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