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My experience with female dog in heat
First female dog I have owned, so the first time i am dealing with the
female dog heat cycle. After having a male dog die from bone cancer caused by getting him neutered at an early age, my philosophy has changed on getting dogs "fixed". I am not going to advocate getting your dogs spayed or neutered for now, just let you know what i went through the last few weeks or so. You have three cycles. The first cycle is where you notice blood droplets, if you have wood or tile floors you may not notice it for a couple of days especially if you have brown or red tiles. It took me a couple of days to realize she was in heat. I did not notice any behavior changes. I started to put her on a long leash for walks ( normally I allow my dogs to run free which i know most of you think is wrong), but I really did not need to as I later found out that during the first cycle they will not get pregnant. The blood drops will change colour and become a lighter, milky like colour red. No real change in behaviour that i noticed, she was possibly drinking more water? The second cycle is a bit more exciting and if you are a prude i would suggest you stop reading. I have an 11-12 year old lab that is fixed and she was showing herself to him quite often, the old guy had some fun, for about a week, i assume she did as well, the only issue is sometimes they would get stuck for about 5 minutes or so after wards. I am sure plenty of you will have a lot of negative things to say about "allowing " this, but save your breath. ( or typing). During these two stages i did not have male dogs from miles away hanging around the yard, in fact not one. Nor at the cottage where we have a few wandering male dogs that i assume are not fixed and plenty of neighboring dogs which i assume are fixed? No noticeable smells either during any of the heat cycles, no real difference in behaviour outside of her showing herself to my male dog during the second cycle. She was not clamouring to get out, she was not running towards the door every time it was opened, none of the stuff that I had heard would happen did ( except for the blood spots and her being receptive to my male dog). By the end of the third week i had her off leash again and things were back to normal. It will be interesting to see if the two dogs behave any different towards each other then they did before this heat cycle happened? I assume dog sex is like homosexual sex in that you do not develop a bond with your sexual partner so it will probably not make a difference ( is that true Melissa? I was told you people do not have long lasting relationships? Or are those just lies like the ones you and your friends spew on these newsgroups? Oh and sorry for not spacing this out like a Dan Brown novel to make it easier for you to understand, but I tried to eliminate punctuation and big words which seemed to have you really,really,really confused before?) So from my experience sure you need to look after your dog a bit more if she is in heat, but the truth is it is not such a big deal to cope with. |
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