Whelping and Raising Puppies

"Five two-day-old Italian Greyhound puppies—I bought my dog from an I.G. breeder about a month ago. She was pregnant when I got her and didn't know until this last Monday the 13th. She then had the puppies on the 15th. I was completely ignorant to what I was doing so I printed the whelping manual from your website and it helped immensely. It guided me to cutting the umbilical cord on one of them and hand-delivering two of them."

Italian Greyhound dam chewing the umbilical cord from her newborn puppy. Note: In some breeds, it is important to do cord care yourself, as some dams pull and can cause an umbilical hernia. Some breeders use hemostat clamps, and trim off the long cord themselves. Some dams do well with cord care, some do not.

Newborn Italian Greyhound puppy

Dam cleaning off her newborn Italian Greyhound puppy

Newborn Italian Greyhound puppy

Newborn Italian Greyhound puppy under its mother

Newborn Italian Greyhound puppy with its mother

Supplementing newborn Italian Greyhound puppy

Supplementing newborn Italian Greyhound puppy

Supplementing newborn Italian Greyhound puppy

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