Hi,
I dontk know how many of you remember me talking about a toy poodle at work who weighed only 3.0lbs but got pregnant by a 7lb poodle. She is only a year old and the owners decided not to spay her or fix the male. We x-rayed her to find she only had one puppy and it was HUGE!
Well the update is that she delevered her puppy overnight while her parents slept. She was lucky she didnt die trying to pass that pup. She was lucky enough to survive, the puppy was not.
They are still having second thoughts about spaying her and they refuse to fix the male.
There are tons of morals to this sad story, but for the sake of this specific forum please o please make sure you dont breed a chi smaller then 4lbs and if your female is small, make sure the male is just as small or smaller.
ALSO, if you decide to breed your girl, the least you can do is stay up with her at the end of her pregnancy...complecations can always pop up and since you were the one who chose to get your chi pregnant the least u can do is stay up with her. If these owners would had watched her when she started showing signs of labor they could had gotten her to us and we could had tried to save the baby....again the mother was lucky to live.
It goes without saying that if you dont plan to breed then spaying/neutering is the best thing to do. This poor poodle is sooooo sore after her difficult birth.
Sorry if this came across as preachy...this is a very smart forum and what i just said is probably common sense to about 98% of the members here...i am just very sad to see this story end this way and thought i would spread the warning
I dontk know how many of you remember me talking about a toy poodle at work who weighed only 3.0lbs but got pregnant by a 7lb poodle. She is only a year old and the owners decided not to spay her or fix the male. We x-rayed her to find she only had one puppy and it was HUGE!
Well the update is that she delevered her puppy overnight while her parents slept. She was lucky she didnt die trying to pass that pup. She was lucky enough to survive, the puppy was not.
They are still having second thoughts about spaying her and they refuse to fix the male.
There are tons of morals to this sad story, but for the sake of this specific forum please o please make sure you dont breed a chi smaller then 4lbs and if your female is small, make sure the male is just as small or smaller.
ALSO, if you decide to breed your girl, the least you can do is stay up with her at the end of her pregnancy...complecations can always pop up and since you were the one who chose to get your chi pregnant the least u can do is stay up with her. If these owners would had watched her when she started showing signs of labor they could had gotten her to us and we could had tried to save the baby....again the mother was lucky to live.
It goes without saying that if you dont plan to breed then spaying/neutering is the best thing to do. This poor poodle is sooooo sore after her difficult birth.
Sorry if this came across as preachy...this is a very smart forum and what i just said is probably common sense to about 98% of the members here...i am just very sad to see this story end this way and thought i would spread the warning