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!

If your bitch has 6 or 7 puppies have you considered what you will do if you can't sell them? Whippets are always one of the last dogs people pick at a rescue centre.

There’s literally zero chance she mated with only one dog and by a happy miracle it’s also a whippet 🤨

I tend to agree, maybe not zero chance but close to zero, what with it being a registered pedigree dog.

They’re not popular dogs, they’re hard to rehome

They are very popular dogs - very on trend in London anyway. Also very saleable, which no doubt is why the OP has chosen not to bring her to the vet for an easily obtainable injection to prevent any puppies.

If Tinder was this easy, there would be a lot less posts on here.

Even if this was true, there is zero guarantee that the bitch only mates with that one male. I can confirm from experience that dogs do not need to to tie to get pregnant. Even the briefest encounter can produce puppies.

Your dog should be spayed and so should your son. What a useless specimen he is.

@Whippetinseason why haven’t you taken her to the vets? Why wait?

Apart from all my angry typos and autocorrections!

I am vet (or at least i am claiming to be one on the internet). But because I am a professional, I am not giving out advice for free when I don't have the full knowledge of the situation. My time is worth more than that.

How devastated would op be if she got mongrels if her dog didn't tie with the lovely "KC whippet" 😏

Wow, what are the chances…

Yes OP, your dog is probably pregnant, are you asking for advice on spay/abort or working out how long you might have before you make a bit of money off her?

What are the chances of that!!

Indeed.

Either you bred your dog on purpose but didn't want to say that because you knew you'd get grief for breeding her, or your son did because he fancies a cut of the profits.

There is no way on earth that your son, who is a grown man of 24, just let an in-season whippet (who you 'were thinking of breeding next year') off the lead when she just happened to be in the vicinity of another pure-bred unneutered whippet by chance. Get real.

her nipples are a bit bigger than normal

That doesn't happen six days after conception. It takes about a month. So either it's just connected with the fact that she's in season, or you're imagining it.

Even a vet can't confirm pregnancy in a dog this soon after mating. They don't do hormone tests until about 21-28 days afterwards.

This must be rage bait!

But OP says in the op they planned to have pupies next year...

I own an unneutered male whippet with a great pedigree...

I did take him to the vet for the necessary but they sent him home and advised he needed to keep his tackle. It's a right pita. We keep him on a lead, even tho he is the clingliest dog we've ever had.

Whippets are super popular and have gone up in price, like most other breeds. Not seen a lot in rescues in previous years but JR Whippet Rescue are very busy this year.

What a crock of nonsense.

<Looks at rescue Whippet next to me>
Oh that’s how it happens….

Seeiously my Whippet boy was dumped, he was chipped as ‘pup 1’ and clearly bread to sell and didn’t so was dumped. Those saying that it is just lurchers and greyhounds that are difficult to home you need to speak to rescues. They are being asked to rehome dogs that never used to cross their doors like whippets.

When are people going to realise that the Covid/poo cross hay day is ended and not breed their dogs?

Yep our vets were reluctant to do my rescue till he was 13 months, u was very nervous till he had the chop!

Resists urge to post a picture of my beautiful Whippet knowing that won’t help…

Puppies!!! For sure.

My sister in-laws new cat escaped for half an hour and got pregnant.

She was saving money to get her nurtured.

It’s the practicalities of it that dictates that you keep your bitch on lead and away from dogs while in season.

Bitches are only in season for a couple of weeks max, so it makes way more sense for their owners to keep them on lead and try to avoid dogs rather than every other dog having to do that always… it’s not just intact males that’ll try and get to them, lots of neutered ones will do too… and some spayed bitches. Obviously only the intact males can get them pregnant, but it doesn’t stop neutered ones doing everything else and females harassing them.

So it’d have to be either all dogs on lead always or in season bitches, the second makes more sense.

Like hell this was an accident, either you think we’re stupid or your son thinks you are. You expect us to believe your in season bitch happened upon a KC registered stud dog of the same breed, in the same place and at the same time purely accidentally? I mean whilst this can technically happen, it’s extremely far fetched that all those circumstances would align at once 🤣.

My money is on you making the whole ‘accident’ rubbish up because you know if you’d admitted to deliberately having your dog mated, you’d have been ripped to shreds on here. You sound ridiculous.

This. It was clearly deliberate.

If she mated and tied she will be pregnant. The more they mate, the more puppies are conceived so if it was just the once, she might only have one or two. Are you sure she only mated with the whippet. A bitch pregnancy can have pups from different fathers in the same litter.

This is slightly different. Cats only ovulate when mated. Bitches ovulate whether they are mated or not. This is why there are so many kittens around and cats keep 'calling' until they are mated or the weather goes really cold.

Not a massive flex when you're likely in your 50s at least and getting a mortgage back when you were 24 wasn't exactly the achievement it is now.

Although, you'll likely lie and say you're much younger because my point is accurate.

She's 26.

I was just telling a similar oops pregnant pet story.

I didn't need a biology lesson.