Hi,
Firstly I was unsure as to ask for advice on here, but now decided it is perhaps better to get advice from those "in the know", rather than those who have no idea what they are talking about! So here goes (please spare me the lectures and I am in Sweden).
My darling Saffi was 1 year old at the end of March. Then ca. 2 weeks later she started her 1st season. All new to me as I have never owned a bitch before, however I was prepared (so I thought). I have two other dogs, 1 male cocker (3.5 years old) and a castrated Springer. We plan for Saffi to have puppies later when she is past 2 years old!
Anyway here is our problem! We have managed to keep our male dog away from her etc.....until an incident last night. It was midnight and they had just been to the toilet, then came in the house and he was so quick that he managed to tie and they were like this for ca. 40mins (whilst my husband and I were taking turns, frantically re-reading info. on this situation).
We are so angry with ourselves and we felt so sorry for her as we know she is not ready for any of this etc....
The first thing I did when I woke up was to call the emergency vet to ask for advice. She informed us that there is an after pill etc (which is given 10 and 28 days after the tie ), however she told us that she has done this with her own dog and she would never do it again etc...
My questions to all of you out there (who have experience/expert knowledge etc..),
how have you/would you deal with this situation?
how safe is the pill?
If she is to have the puppies how would this affect her?
Is there some way of getting around kennel club rules regarding registration? (neither of them have had the checks as we were waiting closer to the time of when we planned to mate her. We could rush out next week and get the checks in order hoping that they pass them, ie hipscore, eye test etc.)
So what would you recommend we do (of course putting Saffi's health and wellbeing first)?
I will call the SKK first thing on Monday morning (they are only open Mon-Fri, like anywhere else in this country).
She is going to the vets anyway on Thursday as she has to have her yearly vaccintation.
Just for future reference, how do you all manage to keep the male away from the female when they are in season? I plan on buying some pants for them both, any other suggestions?
Please only give me advice that is going to help, I am annoyed as it is!
Thank you!