Day 44

Tigre's puppies are growing, a little cottage cheese mixed in her kibble or knuckles bones or hard biscuits seem to help.  Momma got a bath and a tummy shave this past weekend, sleeping in her whelping box close to my bed every night.  It's getting puppy-ish around here!

Tigre' is on Day 44 today

Day 42 to 49 Puppy and Momma's Development for Week 7

Developed puppies continue to grow. Dams will start shedding her tummy hair. If you haven't shaved your dam you may start finding lots of hair on the carpets.

Suggestions:

Increase food... avoid home cooked unbalance foods. Try to make them eat a balanced diet, not just meat. But if your Dam starts getting fussy, doctor up her meals with cooked chopped beef heart, liver, chicken hearts etc... some extra meat is good... too much can cause problems.

Stop all rough play and jumping

At the end of this week, day 48 to 50, take the dam off of the puppy food and put her back on regular kibble. You can change gradually over a couple days, but you have to limit the calcium intake you are feeding, so the dam's body goes into store calcium mode.

Shall we start with measuring the girth?
Tigre' started at 24" at one week pregnant, today she is 28"


It's a rule of thumb for full term canines, measuring the last rib around the belly will help determine how many puppies there are.  Well, yes, we had an ultrasound so we do know she has ten puppies, but for fun, and isn't that what partis are for, I like to measure the girth up to whelping,


With Tigre' starting at 24" and having ten puppies, before going into labor her girth should be about 34", wow huh?