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Topic: Question about pregnancy,please help if you can
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Retha
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posted April 20, 2004 03:38 PM
HI
Wondering if anyone with more breeding experience can help me.
This is the first time that I am breeding my 2 year old Great Dane.
She is know supposed to be 34 days pregnant,but I can not really see much difference in her stomach size.
She is prone to phantom pregnancies,and had one with her first and second heat.
I took her to the vet a while ago so that he can feel if she is pregnant,he told me to come back 2 days later,wich I did.Then he told me that cannot really feel individual "bulbs" in her stomach,but that her uterus is definitely enlarge.So he would say that there is a 95% chance that she is pregnant.
What do you think,could her uterus be enlarged if she is having a phantom pregnancy?
Is there any signs I should look at to find out if she is preg. or having a ohantom?
Thanks
Retha
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Retha
Posts: 2 | From: South Africa | Registered: Apr 2004
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goombaya
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posted April 20, 2004 04:11 PM
Retha, they can do an ultrasound.. at this age they should also be able to detect heartbeats.
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ellierat
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posted April 20, 2004 05:50 PM
Don't ya just love phantom pregnancies, one of mine does it every heat. 34 days, half way, bit tricky to tell without the ultrasound, or a blood test,won't show on an xray yet, the trouble is phantom can be almost identical to the real thing, believe me I was caught out exactly 6 weeks ago, the pups are going for vaccinations today. The b---h is being spayed in a couple of weeks, can't keep going through this all the time. Her belly didn't even show, don't know where she had them tucked in. Then other times I could of sworn she was pregnant, milk, swollen belly, the works, special treatment, diet, heating or air conditioning, NO PUPS, thrown out of the whelping room in disgust!!lol. So I guess you can only treat as if she is pregnant or go for either of the above.
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