How to know when your dog is ready to breed

How to know when your dog is ready to breed- Plain and simple terms

Every female dog goes into her heat about every 6 months. She may start her first heat at about 8 months. This is too early to breed your dog. My suggestion is that your female is atleast two years old or older.

Once she has her first heat, she should come into heat about every 6 months, some dogs every 8 months. Every female dog is different so this varies. You want to catch the first day she bleeds. This is day one. If you are going to have your dog artificially inseminated, the vet will want to see your female on day 8. He will run tests to see if this would be a good day to artificially inseminate, or he may have you come back in a couple more days. So you may go back to the vet at day 10 and he may artificially inseminate her. Then he will have you come back in about 2 days, and have your bring your dog back once more in 2 more days. So she was insemintaed 3 times, every other day starting on day 10. This is just average. Maybe your dog will be on days 9 11 and 14. It is just a ballbark idea of averages.

If you will be breeding your dog, the same holds true. Counting her first day of blood seen, you may breed on days 10, 12 and 14.

How to know when your dog is ready to breed, More Ways To Tell

Other ways to tell your female is ready. If you have a proven stud, he will typically KNOW when the right time to breed is, and you probably not even need to see the vet. He may be comfortable breeding with her every day and not leave a day off in between, so if he breed with your dog on day 9, day 10 keep them apart.
When the two dogs have intercourse, they will be "Locked up afterwards" do not try to pull them apart. Try to keep the male dog from running around, try to keep them fairly still, and do not run water on them. Just simply have patience. It may take 10 to 20 minutes and his swelling will go down and they will once again be separate. You be calm. This is all normal.

How to know when your dog is ready to breed, how I tell

Watch the color of the blood carefully. When the bright red color turn a bit pinky, we know it is time. 

Your female dog will flg, also called flagging. This simply means your dog will lift her tail or butt, and usually do this right in front of the males face. You can also run your finger down her back and see she is "Flagging." This is typically a sign she is ready to breed, however is not always completely accurate. The time frame a dog can get pregnant is about a 5 day window, my dogs typically flag quit a bit longer.