[ SHOWGSD-L ] Fw: [gsdenthusiasts] New puppies

From: "shephaven" <shephaven@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 11:15:04 -0300

How's it going, eh
Well, I guess everything has settled down her at the Funny Farm. Puppies are 
all settled in and moms and kids are doing fine. Final count for Digger is 5 
girls and 2 boys.
But I have an issue I would like to take to you knowlegable folks out there and 
get your opinions.
This is the first time in many years that we have tried to deliver a litter 
without Oxytocin(sorry about the spelling, but remember I'm a lover, not a 
writer) handy, and it didn't go real well.
We spoke to our Vet a few weeks ago and she said they no longer use Oxytocin. 
She said it can do much more harm than good and can do serious harm to a 
bitch.She told us all the things that can happen but that's too long to go into 
right now.BTW, our Vet is a Labrador breeder and has been our Vet for a long 
time.
Now, here is my question. Is this true or just another way to get the dogs into 
their hospital, where they can do C sections and all that other expensive stuff.
We have been at this for a long time(42 years) and have never had a problem 
with this drug, and never had a vet refuse to give it to us before.
Here is what happened.Vision's delivery went fine up until the end. She started 
at about 9 am and was finished about 3 pm (no problems) we thought that was the 
end with 9 new sons until about 6 am the next morning when contractions started 
again.Normally, we would have given her a shot of Oxytocin by supper time the 
day before just to make sure but this time we didn't have it.About 7 am, Lynne 
sets out for the Vet, but on the way, Vision delivers another puppy, a little 
girl, DOA. We feel just too long getting out, but that is life. We so wanted a 
little girl from that breeding.
Anyway, on to Diggers litter. Digger started about 8:30 pm.
She delivered puppies until about 3 am. no problems.  Then stopped until about 
6 am. We have 5 girls and 1 boy. She then delivers another little girl, DOA. 
Lynne takes off to the city to a friend's  that we know has Oxytocin. When she 
eventually gets back, we give Digger a shot and whammo, everything starts 
again. She eventually delivers 3 more puppies. One little boy we are able to 
save, but that was a struggle that took hours. Even used my asthma inhalers, 
but it worked. The other 2 were DOA. As I said before, we feel they were just 
too damn long getting here. Digger has 5 girls and 2 boys. That's not bad but 
in the last 10 days, from 2 litters we have lost 4 puppies, ALL GIRLS, that we 
feel could have been avoided. Anybody out there that knows more about this than 
we do, PLEASE jump in here.
But we did add 2 relief pitchers to our baseball team and 5 cheer leaders so we 
are happy about that.
Wayne


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