Help - a Lovely but heavily pregnant Lurcher turned up at my door today

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I know it's late & I know there's a thread for pointy hound lovers, but I seem to have acquired a heavily pregnant Lurcher, she was lurking round my house all day - very rural no near neighbours, every time I looked out the door she was there, very underfed but sweet & extremely sociable, after about three hours I crumbled & fed her, at which point I noticed she was HEAVILY pregnant & rather skinny.

I've taken her to the Vets', no chip, no report, so she's come back here, she had a show of mucus at the vets' and has been intermittently been panting very heavily, I've phoned the vet again (who luckily are personal friends) who told me how to do an internal, couldn't feel anything yet, so I guess it's just a waiting game.

I've had dogs in the past, but DOGS, never bitches & I've never whelped a pup in me life.

Help & hand-holds would be lovely.

Our ginger ninja cat most definitely rules the roost round here - he terrorises visiting dogs, keeps ours in their place and spends a great deal of time baiting the farm terrier which can't stay away but is terrified of him after he was rolled down the steps by said cat. The cat isn't even very big, but has lots of cattitude.

Hope all is going well in the hound household......

What a lovely live birth thread. Hope all goes well for her and that you are feeling better too hound

hope all is well :)

So exciting.

Can't wait for an update

Would love a dog, but the cats said no.

Any puppies yet?

It would be worth contacting Greyhound Gap - they are a rehoming charity with tons of experience of sight hounds/lurcher of all descriptions. I'm sure they wouldn't mind a quick call should you need advice. Can't remember the url off hand but they're easily googleable. Good luck ??

Place-marking for pupdates!

Hi all, no pupdate sadly, I think she wants to keep me waiting, she did manage to do three ENORMOUS poos in the study overnight which thrilled my no end this morning (particularly as one was behind the door so there was a certain amount of smearage - lovely, as an aside, is it because she's eating so much that she seems to be pooing so much? She seems to be going 6/7 times a day & overnight which none of my previous dogs have ever done).

There was quite a lot of mucus last night (tmi possibly), but she seems as relaxed as ever, she is obviously doing the right thing & waiting until I'm properly prepared.

Someone asked about lurchers & cats, I can only speak for this one but she seems completely nonplussed by them, big cat seems quite happy to be in the same room as her now (after initial disgust), small cat prefers to find a high perch and hiss whenever she walks past, all things considered they seem to have adjusted quite well to her presence.

So - just continuing to wait - will update as soon as anything remotely exciting happens.

Maybe her bowels are clearing for the impending birth? *disclaimer I have NO experience with birthing puppies, but I know it happens in some humans!

marking place.

Coveting puppies.

Not for a jacket

Even if she had been well looked after and fed, a change in diet would upset her tummy a bit. Our iron-gut lab can eat desiccated road kill with seemingly no ill effects but needs a while to adjust if we change her brand of kibble. If Mabli's suddenly getting decent food, her gut is bound to take some time to adjust so not a surprise that she may be passing looser and more frequent stools.

Maybe she's been hungry for a while and has street child syndrome where she'll eat and eat now it's available? This may not be a thing with dogs!

Yes, pupdates pls!

Go on, I need a good puppy thread today :)

It could well be that Sweary, I'm hoping it settles down, will be putting plenty of newspaper down tonight, it wasn't the most pleasant job before I'd had my morning cuppa, DH took her out before he went to bed at about one and we were up at 7.15 so that's A LOT of poo in not very much time.

She's quite clingy at the moment, keeps trying to snuggle up with me on the sofa, unfortunately for her I do operate a no dogs on furniture rule (cruel) so she's having to content herself with her head in my lap.

Yes, I'm guessing the pooing could be due to more food and/or less space in her gut because of the pregnancy?

Will ask vet friend at pick up later.

She may not have lived indoors too I guess.

Also, & I appreciate this may be a very dim question, what happens about taking her out after the pups are born, will she want to leave them to go and do her business or am I going to be dealing with bucketloads of horror?

Yes, more food plus less room inside and a bundle of puppies kicking her workings mean more poo.

Mucous loss is a good sign of impending puppy appearance. Can you see puppy lumps in her sides?

This thread has made me burst into tears crashing case of PMT

Good luck OP and lovely doggie. Look at her ear in the photo

Or nerves? Our boy (greyhound) never looks nervous but it's apparent from his tummy when he's stressed.

She might need enticing outside or she might skip out happily. She is v unlikely to poo in her whelping box.

Good to know Daisy, shall be on the case then, (when anything actually happens).

You're such a star OP.
You deserve a RSPCA medal. (and puppies)

bucketloads of horror

That would be appropriate for Halloween.
no help whatsoever

Marking place for pupdates

shamelessy marking my place, loving this thread.

OP I think you are amazing, dog turns up on your doorstep and you have totally taken her into your household.

Lovely (sigh)