Tips on Whelping a Yorkie

[Yorkielover]

Hi,

I have a Yorkie that is soon going to be whelping. Not only is this her first litter but mines as well too. Just wondering if anybody out there has helpful hints and/or experiences.

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[nuni]

I helped my Cocker Spaniel deliver puppies when I was home alone at 16 so it can’t be too hard. :) I would suggest putting her in a well ventilated, un-carpeted room for starters. Someplace warm would be nice. Make sure there is a bed in that room for her though for before/after she delivers and put down newspapers on the floor everywhere because she might move about the room before going in to labor and could end up anywhere. As far as the delivery I would just stay in the room with her and watch her deliver with latex gloves on because (at least from my experience) they can give birth at a pretty fast rate and they need to chew the sacks that the puppies are in open (they do this instinctively) so that the puppies can breathe and sometimes they’ll get behind so you might need to do it for them. Or at least point out that they have a sack that needs to be opened. It was a pretty gross experience for me, but it was kind of fascinating too! Good luck :) Are all your pooches spoken for?

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[LisaM]

Do you have a vet? I would think they can give you the best info and also how to prepare for if something goes wrong.

I’ll be there is info on the internet as well, just do your research.

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[nuni]

btw..my dog had 6 pups, all healthy :)

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[Yorkielover]

Unfortunately my vet doesn’t have that much experience with delivering pups. My breeder has given me great useful information which has helped, I’m just so much nervous than I thought I would be. Go figure. I have a head count so far of two confirmed pups and I will be following up earlier next week to get a more accurate count. Two are spoken for but the rest are available if there are more

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[Diana]

Nature will take it’s course. I hope your puppies are healthy and will find loving and forever homes. I, however, must voice a RANT for this contribution to the over population of companion animals. Spay…neuter…ADOPT! There is no excuse not to unless it’s financial.

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[nuni]

Strange, I don’t recall the original poster asking for people’s opinions on spaying/neutering their animal.

Yorkielover, no need to be nervous, like Diana said, nature will take it’s course, just be around incase she needs a little extra help. :)

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[Yorkielover]

Hi all,

First let me say thank you to all that have given me such caring advice. Yes, I am inexperienced with whelping a litter, but my dog is strong and I’m confident that it will go as planned. Second I think that breeding for financial reason’s is the worst reason to breed. I know personally that the breeder who performed stud service, the breeder that I initially got my dog from, bred because of how exceptional in personality and quality their dogs were. I am only currently having two pups, which one is going to my daughter and one to my boss/friend. This is not at all about money. I am doing it because my dog is exceptional and I want to carry it on in one more generation.

Again, I thank all for the support!!!

Kindest Regards,

Yorkielover

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[RainyDay1235]

There is no excuse, EVEN if financial. Exceptional personality is not a reason either. I can’t help but think of the 600 recently seized puppy mill dogs, 80% of whom are pregnant and due to give birth within the next month. Each new puppy born equals one less home for a shelter dog. I’m sorry, but I had to say it.

I do hope the “whelping” and subsequent spay go well.

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[cakeitseasy]

‘whelping’…is that really a word? ‘whelping a Yorkie’ sounds abusive :0)

A whelp, ok….whelped, er, maybe…whelp-ing?…huh?

Grammar, what a bitch. (hehehehehe)

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[Irukandji]

http://www.seattlevet.net

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[inactive]

Rainy –

Just an fyi, though this is kind of off-topic to questions about whelping:

the media was wrong in the initial publication of reports that 4 out of 5 pups were pregnant. Not even close. Out of 600, only 20 have been found to be pregnant.

Refer to the link TR provided under current donation thread – a link to an Everett paper article. It also contains the link to the website started by the guy who officially reported the breeder (his friend) to the officials.

Just my $.02. I understand the disdain for these lowlifes. Believe me. But, this lady was talking about getting advice for the first time whelping of two pups from her pet. Maybe that’s a very different situation, yes?

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[Yorkielover]

wow,

I’am trying to not get offended believe me, I appreciate opinions as much as the next. I however only asked for whelping tips and friendly advice, but now I feel attacked and persecuted for my choices. I have lived in West Seattle all of my life and have chosen to bring my children up here because of how great the community is. Have always supported those around me and I ask for some tips/advice and now I feel like I am being compared to a puppy mill breeder or someone who doesn’t support shelters. I guess the true West Seattlites are coming out.

By the way, I am one of the volunteers for the Saving one pet at a time shelter.

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[Irukandji]

Hang in their YL. I’ve always been impressed by the way people try to support a cause by torching and tearing down others. Perhaps it’s harder to provide helpful, accurate and compassionate information than it is to just be angry.

I’m wishing you and yours the best, hope you find great care for the pups, and am glad to know you’re already on track to place puppies in loving homes.

Here’s hoping there’s a safe and loving place for ALL critters, humans included. Cheers.

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[guidosmom]

Yorkielover, I am really sorry. I was always against breeding dogs (and of course still am in most circumstances) and had a good friend do exactly what you did. I truly never understood why she wanted to breed her dog until one day I adopted the most amazing dog in the world and would have loved to breed him just once to be able to have his offspring. I wish you the best of luck!

My friend’s dog gave birth successfully on her own for the most part, but struggled with the final pup and had to be rushed to the vet. She ended up being fine, but it wouldn’t have been good for her had they not been able to take her to the vet. If your vet can’t help you maybe try calling a few others to be on stand by, as well as an after hours vet (I love the critcal care place on Lake City Way), hopefully you won’t need help, but just in case. :) Best wishes!

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[herongrrrl]

This is a soapbox of mine (oh no, another one in this thread!) but I’ll chime in to say that the best way to help any birthing animal is to leave her alone. They know what to do and 99.999 times will do it just fine by themselves. Disturbing them, even watching them, can slow down and otherwise impede labor’s progress. Unless she chooses to be close to you as she’s giving birth, let her have plenty of space.

A close friend of mine works at an emergency vet clinic, and she says that when people bring in their whelping dogs they almost never need to *do* anything to help them, they just put the dog in a dark, quiet kennel and let her do the work.

Our culture views birth as a medical event when it very rarely has to be. By trying to help, we often do more harm than good. I’m sure you’ve researched what to watch for that might indicate something is amiss, and some breeds are more prone to problems than others because of their breeding, but I guess you can figure that there wouldn’t be any discussion of dog overpopulation in this thread if dogs regularly needed a lot of assistance to give birth!

Good luck to you, the mother to be, and the pups!

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[Gina]

Guess bacon flavored crushed ice for the little yorkie mother to be wouldn’t be helpful…

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[Anonymous]

Yorkielover wrote:

“I am inexperienced with whelping a litter,”

So rely on your breeder’s advice instead of asking for advice from unknown readers/posters on an internet blog.

“but my dog is strong”

What do you mean by that? A Yorkshire terrier is a toy breed terrier. Toy breed terriers were developed to be rat chasers, so all terriers are feisty. What makes your dog so worthy of continuing the breed of Yorkshire terrier that you would make her have puppies? You don’t know, do you?

“and I’m confident that it will go as planned.”

If you mean that your bitch will have puppies, then I agree.

“Second I think that breeding for financial reason’s is the worst reason to breed. I know personally that the breeder who performed stud service, the breeder that I initially got my dog from, bred because of how exceptional in personality and quality their dogs were.”

Those are nice platitudes. Pleaee explain how your puppies will advance the conformation and temperament of the Yorkshire Terrier breed.

“I am only currently having two pups, which one is going to my daughter and one to my boss/friend.”

How do you know how many puppies will be born?

“This is not at all about money. I am doing it because my dog is exceptional and I want to carry it on in one more generation.

Please explain how your dog is an exceptional example of the Yorkshire Terrier breed, and please ask your breeder to post here on this blog so she can explain how you are improving the Yorkshire Terrier breed instead of just being another ignorant backyard breeder.

If your breeder is not able to post here on this blog to explain how she is improving the Yorkshire Terrier breed, then in my humble opinion, she and you are both ignorant backyard breeders.

If you are not improving the Yorkshire Terrier breed, then you should not breed, and before you or she let any dogs go to other owners, those dogs should either be spayed or neutered if you or she are not able to explain what you or she are doing to improve the Yorkshire Terrier breed.

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[Anonymous]

Irukandji wrote:

“…people try to support a cause by torching and tearing down others. Perhaps it’s harder to provide helpful, accurate and compassionate information than it is to just be angry.”

It is easy and sufficient for me say that ignorant people should not breed dogs.

Perhaps it is difficult for Irukandji to research why so many dogs are euthanized.

Here… I will help:

Google for

dog rescue

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[Anonymous]

Google:

http://www.google.com

dog rescue

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[JanS]

we all know how to google, Scott…..really…calling people ignorant doesn’t work here. This is a thread asking for advice. How dare us judge the OP. She is being responsible in her breeding of her dog. She is not the persons in the Skagit Valley and Snohomish that have done a despicable thing to the pups in the puppy mills. One thing has nothing to do with the other, and I think it’s rude and insensitive at best to come down on the OP.

And we know why so many dogs and cats are euthanized…irresponsibility and selfishness.

If you can’t help the OP (her dog is already preggers, so too late to close the barn door, so to speak), then start your own thread about how animals are treated or mistreated by some people.

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[Anonymous]

JanS wrote:

“we all know how to google, Scott…..really…”

I disagree.

Some people have relatively recently acquired internet access. Some people who have had internet access for relatively longer than others do not know about Google.

I doubt you know how many of the people who read this blog know about Google. I doubt you know how many of those people who know about Google know how to use Google without something to click on.

“calling people ignorant doesn’t work here.”

That is your opinion.

“This is a thread asking for advice. How dare us judge the OP.”

It is easy for me to “judge the OP,” and it is not daring for me to do so.

IMHO,

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/IMHO

the OP (original poster)

is another ignorant backyard breeder among many based on her initial query.

As I suggested, she could have asked her breeder for advice. The fact that she needed to ask her breeder’s advice (let alone ask an internet blog) indicates to me that her breeder did not communicate to her what her responsibilities are for her unspayed female.

The fact that her breeder allowed her to have an unspayed female without supervision and a contract pretty much says it all.

“She is being responsible in her breeding of her dog.”

Maybe she is doing the best she can without the help of her breeder.

“She is not the persons in the Skagit Valley and Snohomish that have done a despicable thing to the pups in the puppy mills.”

IMHO, there is little moral difference between them. The OP is breeding, and she is ignorant, or she would not be asking for advice from strangers via an internet blog forum.

“One thing has nothing to do with the other, and I think it’s rude and insensitive at best to come down on the OP.”

That is your opinion. It is my opinion that someone who is breeding dogs who asks for help from strangers via the internet is probably a backyard breeder, and at best, that person is ignorant.

“And we know why so many dogs and cats are euthanized…irresponsibility and selfishness.”

Maybe you are using the royal “we.” Many people who breed dogs are irresponsible, ignorant backyard breeders.

“If you can’t help the OP (her dog is already preggers, so too late to close the barn door, so to speak),”

IMHO, I did help the OP. Here is the first thing I wrote in my first response to the OP:

“So rely on your breeder’s advice instead of asking for advice from unknown readers/posters on an internet blog.”

“then start your own thread about how animals are treated or mistreated by some people.”

I suggest you take your own advice.

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[JimmyG]

When you make the decision to post a question on an internet forum open to the public you don’t get to choose the reponses you may get.

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[JimmyG]

And in my opinion (since that’s what we’re allowed to post here) the OP isn’t so much ignorant as irresponsible.

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[Yorkielover]

This is ridiculous.

The context of my original posting I had asked “if anybody out there has helpful hints and/or experiences” For those that read more into that don’t. I am not a “backyard breeder” nor am I “ignorant” or trying to establish a “puppy mill”

Never did I say that I was not getting support or advice from my breeder and my vet. Just because I am nervous doesn’t make me any of the awful things that I am compaired to. As for you Scott, you do the research on Yorkie’s, and their personalities. I do have to say that there are some Yorkshire breeders that shouldn’t breed because of their dogs temperment but they still do. My dog is exceptional in every aspect. I shouldn’t have to justify myself, my dog, or my breeder to you or anybody else. I cannot however allow you to turn this all against me when you don’t know me. Since you are so curious I will tell you a little about my mama dog.

She is going to be 5 this April

She was born in Arkansas (and no i did not have her shipped from there, i drove there and back to get her)

For anybody who has had a Yorkie they will know that most Yorkies love only their owners. This is not the case with mine. She loves all. My 21 month old daughter and her are best of friends. She greets everyone with love. We take her hiking on the Pacific Crest Trail to Silver Peak every summer and she loves it. She is feisty but loving and loves to play. She is not high maintenanced nor is she picky. I can walk her without a leash and she stays by or runs up ahead and waits for me, even when walking down a flight of steps. I love my dog, it is not wrong for me to breed her once. How do I know how many puppies she is having. Why don’t you tell me how they determine that since you seem to know everything. How dare you judge me. I feel sorry for you Scott, I really do. You must be a pretty angry, sad and lonely individual. It’s okay though, I won’t let your bitterness and ignorance ruin my day! I wish you the best

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