Just wondering what everyone uses for welping boxes we are having our first liter and trying to decide what I need to build and buy. Any recomendations would be great.
Thanks
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kninebirddog
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swimming pool works well
besure what ever you get or build it has plenty of room for the pups to squirm around plus let the mother space also
get a heating pad and be sure it isn't the kind with an automatic shut of and the cover for it place a few extra snapps or some easy to remove stiches so that the pus cant squirm in between the cover and the pad...they will crawl on and off as needed even as little day olds
a great method is the first few weeks of the Art of Raising a Puppy written by the Monks Of New Skete
also the cheap floor rugs from walmart they are about 90 cents each the ones with the sewn edges make for great extra covers for the heating pad
Lots of newspaper not shredded makes easy clean up during whelping and then when the pups get a little older
besure what ever you get or build it has plenty of room for the pups to squirm around plus let the mother space also
get a heating pad and be sure it isn't the kind with an automatic shut of and the cover for it place a few extra snapps or some easy to remove stiches so that the pus cant squirm in between the cover and the pad...they will crawl on and off as needed even as little day olds
a great method is the first few weeks of the Art of Raising a Puppy written by the Monks Of New Skete
also the cheap floor rugs from walmart they are about 90 cents each the ones with the sewn edges make for great extra covers for the heating pad
Lots of newspaper not shredded makes easy clean up during whelping and then when the pups get a little older
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A little swimming pool and lots of newspaper is the best I have used. Never found a need for anything more unless they were whelping out in the kennel during the winter and then I tried to use some form of heat. Found a catalistic heater worked well and was safer than anything else.
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