My 3 year old whippet (who is in season) had (unprotected!) sex!!

[Whippetinseason]

My 3 year old whippet went into season when we were on holiday, whilst my son looked after her. I explicitly told him not to let her off the lead, but being a 24 year old lad (who knows it all!), he let her off the lead. She normally has fantastic recall but obviously being in season, she went out of his sight for about 5 minutes and by the time he found her, she had tied with an un-neutered male whippet!!!

Anyway, when she tied with the male, she was on day 11 of her season, so by my understanding, at the most fertile time. My son and the dog's owner had to just wait until they'd finished. The woman gave my son her number and was very apologetic but obviously it was my son's fault - no un-neutered male would miss this chance of course.

Now, the one mildly amusing thing about this is that she chose a beautiful KC registered whippet (like she is!) so at least she has taste (!). What are the chances of that!! I know this as I have been in touch with the owner - her whippet is a stud whippet who breeds lots, so he's proven 😖

This happened 6 days ago. What are the chances she is pregnant and how would I know? I've googled it of course, but it talks about ultrasounds etc.

She doesn't seem any different yet, although her nipples are a bit bigger than normal (this could be my imagination though).

I'm a mixture of fuming with my son as this is going to be bloody hard work and I work full time, but also a bit excited 😬 We had considered breeding her next year anyway, but now is not a good time as we move house next month!

Help!

Why wasn't she neutered years ago? Poor dog.

Oh dear. She can't be a very responsible breeder if she's letting her intact male wander around off lead, and obviously you know your son is an idiot. Kennels and rescues are overrun with whippets and other lurchers and longdogs, you should've just spayed her years ago, there's absolutely no use for another inexperienced breeder in an already flooded market. The fact that your dog is KC registered is irrelevant.

4-5 weeks is the usual timeframe for bitches to start showing signs of pregnancy. It'll just be a case of waiting and looking for the signs. If you want to try and find out sooner, take her to the vet in a week or two. There are hormone tests they can do similar to a human pregnancy test, which may be able to confirm sooner - false negatives are possible of course so an US at 6 weeks is the only guaranteed confirmation. Then they'll be able to advise on appropriate care for her if she is pregnant, or the KC website has a lot of resources available to breeders. Suggest starting there!

Mismate.
It's 2 injections given to a pregnant bitch that will cause her to absorb the growing embryos.
The sooner it is done the better.

😂your title made me laugh. Have you not discussed safe sexual health with her already?

joking aside, I'd be furious with DS, absolutely furious.

it's not an ideal time for you, but at least he's a well bred whippet and as he's a stud I'm assuming he's had all the testing necessary?

Get your girl tested & find out all you need to know to do this as best you can.

and tell DS to block out xyz time period in his diary as he WILL be helping!

and remember to come back with photos!!

I didn't want anything from this thread other than advice on how I'd know if she was pregnant.

It is not hot where we are and this was a week ago, when it was raining.

She is not a 'poor dog'.

I am furious with my son, but it's now happened and I was here for some advice.

He's 24, as I said.

Of course I have not.walked her today, it is hot. This was last week, in the rain

Mumsmet at its best 🤣🤣 Jesus.

Any sensible owner would book a vets appointment and have her spayed + abortion if required . Call me cynical but I find it absolute horse poo that your offlead in season whippet managed to locate an offlead stud whippet by chance .

What are the chances of two such irresponsible owners of the same breed living in the same vicinity?

@Whippetinseason are you going to take your dog to the vet to get it checked? And will you spay and abort if they are pregnant or are you planning to continue the pregnancy? I would think very carefully as there is no benefit to your dog from having puppies, and could actually negatively impact their well-being

Erm, sounds like this may shock a few PPs but there will be plenty of entire male dogs wandering about… the responsibility is on the owner of the dog in heat here, as OP recognises,
I’d be the same OP… half excited, half wtf 😂

The morning after pill for dogs?
I’m not a dog owner so have no idea what to say to the OP but I was going to suggest that I know with cats vets can abort and spay at the same time but your suggestion might be better.

This. Or a surgical hysterectomy.

The world doesn't need more dogs when there are so many in shelters and abused.

Money on this not being any sort of accident. Have you been told how much the stud fee is yet ... ?

So your in season whippet just managed to find a KC stud whippet male
Haha pull the other one, this was planned

Yes agree with this and was coming on to say the same. Your son knows more about this than he is letting on.