Dog Symptom Checker

hi,my name is dr. pam nichols. i'm a veterinarianin bountiful, utah, at animal care center. i'd like to talk to you today, about how totell when your dog is pregnant. first thing is, we hope that you're doing this responsibly,and that you've planned to breed your dog, and that you in fact, did witness the breeding,not that your dog was just running free, and happened to get pregnant. second thing, isthat after your dog has been bred, by day

Dog Symptom Checker, thirty, a blood test can be run ,that willconfirm that' she's actually pregnant. by day thirty, you will start seeing signs ofpregnancy, but these signs can be very misleading, because every dog that has a heat cycle, willgo through a false pregnancy, every single time, and this simply has to do with the dog'scorpus luteum, not disappearing until about

day fifty, so dogs that go into heat, actlike they're pregnant, no matter what, for at least a month, or a month and a half, soat day thirty after breeding, take your dog to her vet. have a blood test run, to confirmpregnancy. if you're not sure at day thirty, or if you don't have time to take her at daythirty, you can take her in at day fifty to fifty five of gestation, and your vet cantake x-rays, and find out how many puppies are in,and what size the puppies are, andi actually recommend that for all of my pregnant dogs, just simply so we know, and especially,this is dogs that are at risk, for having cesarean sections, so dogs like poodles, andchihuahuas, and doxsins. dogs that tend to have larger puppies than they're able to dealwith, able to deliver. we'd like you to have

x-rays before delivery. other signs that yourdog might be pregnant, would be her abdomen gets swollen. her appetite may decrease. heractivity level may decrease. she may get a little more sedentary. she also may get moreneedy, and be hanging out with you more, and not want to leave your side. dogs tend toget a little bit anxious, and then as gestation progresses, they'll start doing things likepanting heavily, because their belly is so big and swollen, and pacing a lot, and justnot being able to get comfortable, standing up and lying down.