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Unwilling breeders
On several occasions, owners would confront vets with the lament that, irrespective of their efforts and following the rules, their dogs won’t mate.
Usually, the reason for the reluctance of the stud dog and the bitch to copulate lies in the simple fact that the timing is wrong. In other words, the dogs were brought together at the wrong time of the estrus cycle.
The rule of thumb, as we have explained before, is to bring the dogs together on the 8th, 10th and 12th days after you (the owner) have seen the first droplets of blood from the female. Now, please understand that we are dealing here with