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First time in season
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We have an 8-month old Border Terrier. Could anyone tell us when this breed first come into season? How long would it typically last and how would an owner handle it? Thanks, Roland. |
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Ichthys wrote:
Hi, We have an 8-month old Border Terrier. Could anyone tell us when this breed first come into season? How long would it typically last and how would an owner handle it? I'd handle it by taking her to vet now to be spayed. --Lia |
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Ichthys wrote:
Hi, We have an 8-month old Border Terrier. Could anyone tell us when this breed first come into season? How long would it typically last and how would an owner handle it? I'd handle it by taking her to vet now to be spayed. --Lia |
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Ichthys wrote:
Hi, We have an 8-month old Border Terrier. Could anyone tell us when this breed first come into season? How long would it typically last and how would an owner handle it? I'd handle it by taking her to vet now to be spayed. --Lia |
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On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 22:12:04 +0100 Ichthys whittled these words:
Hi, We have an 8-month old Border Terrier. Could anyone tell us when this breed first come into season? Any time now. How long would it typically last and how would an owner handle it? Typical is 3 weeks. But silent seasons happen. And that means if you give her any time unsupervised outside, or any means of escaping you could end up with a pregnant dog never knowing she had ever gone into heat. If you are not going to spay her then you really need to read up on how heat works, how to detect it, but especially about (a) preventing an unwanted pregnancy and (b) the false pregnancy that often follows. Be sure to read up on pyrometrea. You really have to be on your toes regarding the health of an intact female dog. Its easy to miss life threatening problems if you don't know what to watch for, because they can't tell us what is wrong and you have a breed not given to showing pain. If you are planning on spaying her anyway then now is a good time. Letting her go into heat does nothing of benefit to her, and does increase her health risks. If you are planning on breeding her it will be a couple years yet before you can do the necessary testing and screening to see if she can be bred responsibly. A lot of problems with our purebred dogs can be laid at the feet of people who bred their dogs without properly researching the pedigree, and without understanding basic canine genetics. Please don't make that error. The fact that she is still intact but you haven't bought any books to tell you about basic canine health issues including normal reproductive process is not a good sign. You will need more information than you can get on newsgroups to keep your dog healthy. http://dog-play.com/ethics.html -- Diane Blackman http://dog-play.com/ http://dog-play.com/shop2.html |
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On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 22:12:04 +0100 Ichthys whittled these words:
Hi, We have an 8-month old Border Terrier. Could anyone tell us when this breed first come into season? Any time now. How long would it typically last and how would an owner handle it? Typical is 3 weeks. But silent seasons happen. And that means if you give her any time unsupervised outside, or any means of escaping you could end up with a pregnant dog never knowing she had ever gone into heat. If you are not going to spay her then you really need to read up on how heat works, how to detect it, but especially about (a) preventing an unwanted pregnancy and (b) the false pregnancy that often follows. Be sure to read up on pyrometrea. You really have to be on your toes regarding the health of an intact female dog. Its easy to miss life threatening problems if you don't know what to watch for, because they can't tell us what is wrong and you have a breed not given to showing pain. If you are planning on spaying her anyway then now is a good time. Letting her go into heat does nothing of benefit to her, and does increase her health risks. If you are planning on breeding her it will be a couple years yet before you can do the necessary testing and screening to see if she can be bred responsibly. A lot of problems with our purebred dogs can be laid at the feet of people who bred their dogs without properly researching the pedigree, and without understanding basic canine genetics. Please don't make that error. The fact that she is still intact but you haven't bought any books to tell you about basic canine health issues including normal reproductive process is not a good sign. You will need more information than you can get on newsgroups to keep your dog healthy. http://dog-play.com/ethics.html -- Diane Blackman http://dog-play.com/ http://dog-play.com/shop2.html |
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On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 22:12:04 +0100 Ichthys whittled these words:
Hi, We have an 8-month old Border Terrier. Could anyone tell us when this breed first come into season? Any time now. How long would it typically last and how would an owner handle it? Typical is 3 weeks. But silent seasons happen. And that means if you give her any time unsupervised outside, or any means of escaping you could end up with a pregnant dog never knowing she had ever gone into heat. If you are not going to spay her then you really need to read up on how heat works, how to detect it, but especially about (a) preventing an unwanted pregnancy and (b) the false pregnancy that often follows. Be sure to read up on pyrometrea. You really have to be on your toes regarding the health of an intact female dog. Its easy to miss life threatening problems if you don't know what to watch for, because they can't tell us what is wrong and you have a breed not given to showing pain. If you are planning on spaying her anyway then now is a good time. Letting her go into heat does nothing of benefit to her, and does increase her health risks. If you are planning on breeding her it will be a couple years yet before you can do the necessary testing and screening to see if she can be bred responsibly. A lot of problems with our purebred dogs can be laid at the feet of people who bred their dogs without properly researching the pedigree, and without understanding basic canine genetics. Please don't make that error. The fact that she is still intact but you haven't bought any books to tell you about basic canine health issues including normal reproductive process is not a good sign. You will need more information than you can get on newsgroups to keep your dog healthy. http://dog-play.com/ethics.html -- Diane Blackman http://dog-play.com/ http://dog-play.com/shop2.html |
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Dianne is right.
I am well aware that spaying and neutering are not as commonly done in the UK as here in the US , but there are definite health benefits. And Border Terrier Welfare, your UK rescue group, is kept quite busy finding new homes for BTs that have lost their first homes... now that the breed has become so popular there.... so more puppies, accidentally or deliberately, really have great potential to add to the workload as there are not enough good homes for any breed! So talk to your vet promptly and schedule the surgery! Feel free to join the Border Terrier fun-and-facts on We have a good number of members from the UK, the US, Canada, The Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Australia, and New Zealand... and possibly from additional countries. Most are just great pet owners, but there are breeders from all of the listed countries, vets from the US and Canada, trainers,.... "the works". Heck, even some of the dogs post messages now and then. But the human membership is around 1000.... not all of whom post messages regularly. Jo Wolf Martinez, Georgia |
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Dianne is right.
I am well aware that spaying and neutering are not as commonly done in the UK as here in the US , but there are definite health benefits. And Border Terrier Welfare, your UK rescue group, is kept quite busy finding new homes for BTs that have lost their first homes... now that the breed has become so popular there.... so more puppies, accidentally or deliberately, really have great potential to add to the workload as there are not enough good homes for any breed! So talk to your vet promptly and schedule the surgery! Feel free to join the Border Terrier fun-and-facts on We have a good number of members from the UK, the US, Canada, The Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Australia, and New Zealand... and possibly from additional countries. Most are just great pet owners, but there are breeders from all of the listed countries, vets from the US and Canada, trainers,.... "the works". Heck, even some of the dogs post messages now and then. But the human membership is around 1000.... not all of whom post messages regularly. Jo Wolf Martinez, Georgia |
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Dianne is right.
I am well aware that spaying and neutering are not as commonly done in the UK as here in the US , but there are definite health benefits. And Border Terrier Welfare, your UK rescue group, is kept quite busy finding new homes for BTs that have lost their first homes... now that the breed has become so popular there.... so more puppies, accidentally or deliberately, really have great potential to add to the workload as there are not enough good homes for any breed! So talk to your vet promptly and schedule the surgery! Feel free to join the Border Terrier fun-and-facts on We have a good number of members from the UK, the US, Canada, The Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Australia, and New Zealand... and possibly from additional countries. Most are just great pet owners, but there are breeders from all of the listed countries, vets from the US and Canada, trainers,.... "the works". Heck, even some of the dogs post messages now and then. But the human membership is around 1000.... not all of whom post messages regularly. Jo Wolf Martinez, Georgia |
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