How to tell 24 hours before your dog gives birth

How to tell 24 hours before your dog gives birth

So your dog is pregnant, congrats!

Starting on the first day your dog bred, count to day 58.

On Day 58, you will start taking your dogs temperature two times a day. Typically a dog's due date will be at day 63, but she can deliver puppies as soon as day 58. She can also go after day 63, if she did not actually get pregnant the first day you bred her.

How to tell 24 hours before your dog gives birth, Take her temperature twice a day

How to do this.
You can use vaseline and gently inset the thermometor into your dogs rectum. Have someone hold the dog still from the front. I have found a thermometor that is not glass, and beeps when it is done taking the temperature.

How to tell 24 hours before your dog gives birth, what is a normal temperature?

Your dogs temperature will flucuate between 99 degrees and up to 101.4 degrees. When your dogs temperature reaches 98 degrees or below, it is time. She will deliever her first puppy within 24 hours. This method has been proven to be accurate for all of my females, although as you know, nothing is never 100% accurate. As a breeder this is how I tell that our dog is about to give birth within 12 to 24 hours of the temp drop.

This method seems to be about 99.8% accurate, it has always worked for us.

You may notice she is already panting, and at the first stages of labor.

My next article will explain the stages of labor.