Pupping] 242 [Pupping 



Dose : From sufficient to cover a sixpence 

 to a dessertspoonful. 1 



If a bitch has been in the habit of being 

 regularly washed, this may be continued as 

 usual, when the heat has passed, until about 

 the seventh week, when it is not advisable to 

 put the bitch right into warm water in case 

 abortion might be induced. 



While on the subject of abortion, I may 

 mention that a bitch ought never to be sent 

 on a journey by train during the last two 

 weeks, for a shaking of this kind is more 

 likely to cause premature confinement than 

 anything else I know. 



It is very important that the bitch should be 

 quite clean at the time of parturition, and it is a 

 good plan to wash the stomach and breast, also 

 the vulva and surrounding parts, with a strong 

 warm solution of Pearson's fluid, about one in 

 forty. Some treatment of this kind is more 

 likely to prevent young puppies from having 

 worms soon after birth than anything else. It 

 is a common custom, and I think a very good 

 one, to give a bitch in pup a dose of castor oil 

 about three days before she is due. In many 

 cases, especially when the bitch is a bit gross, 

 it is advisable to give a dose of the oil a week 

 before her time is up, and again in three or four 

 days. 



Bitches, as a rule, have their puppies on the 

 sixty - second or sixty - third day, the day of 

 service being included ; but some will pup on 

 1 According to the size of the dog. See p. 86. 



