Cleanliness and hygienic conditions for dog breeding and puppy birth

During birth and in the following weeks, hygiene is an important factor to ensure well-being. It is fundamental that the handling of the mother and in newborns be done with disposable sterile latex gloves, and it is not possible, with your hands perfectly washed and disinfected until the elbows. Likewise all the material that you will use, needs to have been sterilized in an adequate solution. In you are intending to use the models, they need to be perfectly clean and sterilized before each use.

It is equally essential that the walls of the room in which the mother and puppies are, as well as the floor, be cleaned and disinfected at least once or twice a day. It is also vitally important that during the first weeks of life of the puppies, nobody, except for the breeders, visit them a much less carries them or pets them; unfortunately virus and bacteria are all over the place waiting to attack defenseless creatures like the new puppies. In fact, a habit that should be put into practice during the whole time that there are puppies in the house consists in leaving the shoes that you use for the street outside the house or at the door, and simply walk around the house in flip-flops.

When you suspect of the risk of the feared "canine herpes", it is necessary to raise the temperature of the room in which the mother and puppies are over 33° Celsius, because at this temperature herpes develops much slower. In those cases in which the mother needs to leave the house (to the street, a park, etc.) to do her needs, it is important that you take a series of precautions in order to avoid that she brings back home unwanted guests (virus and bacteria); also, you must avoid high traffic areas and places where there are lots of dogs, always maintaining your dog on the leash. It is much as possible, make sure the dog doesn't sniff other dogs or their poop. Back at home, with a disinfectant, clean the paws and pads, the opening of the anus, the vulva, the snout and also the nipples, before she has a chance to return to her little ones.

In the 24 hours after giving birth, it is very important to clean the residues from the area around the vulva, hind legs and tail with warm water and disinfectant. This operation must very be as many times as necessary during the days of Puerperium (Time period following childbirth when the mother's uterus shrinks and the other functional and anatomic changes of pregnancy are resolved). In other words, it could be up to 40 or 45 days, depending on the circumstances of each birth.