It is very important for your dog to prepare delivery supplies before the dog gives birth. Here is a list of some supplies and their uses, hoping to help the dog deliver the baby:

1. Disposable plastic gloves: For reasons of hygiene and personal habits, in theory it is best to wear gloves to avoid infection of the mother dog. However, I personally think that if you are not used to wearing gloves, you should not wear them, because delivering a dog requires us to move quickly. If gloves hinder the speed, it is better not to wear them. Wash your hands with disinfectant soap and wipe them with rubbing alcohol to make the work easier.

2. Alcohol: used to disinfect hands and instruments. The scissors mentioned below require you to carefully disinfect the blade with alcohol cotton.

3. Scissors: Used to cut the umbilical cord of newborn puppies. When delivering a dog, after the puppy is separated from the mother dog's belly with the umbilical cord and placenta, you need to use scissors to cut the umbilical cord of the puppy. You need to prepare a pair of sharp scissors to cut off the umbilical cord. Cut, the scissors should not be too big, and should be used smoothly to avoid hurting the baby dog's belly.

4. Iodine: Used to disinfect the navel of puppies whose umbilical cord has just been cut. There will be bleeding when the umbilical cord is just cut. Don’t be afraid. This is normal. (When delivering a dog, you should not tremble at the sight of blood, otherwise something bad will happen.) After cutting the umbilical cord of the puppy, quickly apply iodine to disinfect and stop bleeding.

5. Cotton swab: Used to apply iodine to the cut umbilical cord of the puppy.

6. Cotton thread or silk thread: Used to tie the umbilical cord on the belly of the puppy. It seems that in theory, after cutting the umbilical cord of the puppy, it needs to be tied with cotton thread or silk thread. Although you have prepared some things, the puppy keeps moving and its hands are shaking. If you really can't tie it, don't tie it.

7. Prepare some warm water for female dogs to drink:

When a dog gives birth to puppies, it usually lasts a long time, and some take several hours. Moreover, giving birth to a puppy is also a physically demanding thing, so you need to add some water to the dog during the delivery. You need to have a bottle of warm water within reach to give your dog some water in between births.

8. A clean and soft box:

This depends on your situation. If your dog is small, please prepare a small nest for the mother dog. You can put the puppies directly in the nest to prevent the puppies from crawling around. , you can put them in a box first, and then put them in the doghouse with the mother dog after the mother dog has finished giving birth.

9. Hot water bottle:

This is something you must prepare when giving birth to a dog baby in winter, because the baby’s health isThe temperature capacity is very low, and they rely on the mother dog to maintain body temperature. Before the mother dog is completely born, you also need a hot water bottle to help the puppies maintain their temperature. But be sure not to get it too hot to avoid scalding your dog. It only needs to be warm to the touch at 40-50 degrees.

10. Prepare a lot of toilet paper or clean, absorbent rags:

As mentioned before, it is not very clean for a mother dog to give birth to puppies. As the puppies are born, the mother dog will bleed and have bodily fluids leaking out. Therefore, when delivering the dog, you should also If you really need these things, wipe them here and there. You can throw away the rag when you are done with it.

Note:

When a dog mother gives birth to puppies, we do not necessarily need us to deliver the dog. Most dog mothers naturally know what they want to do. But we still need to prepare supplies for dog delivery. This is because some dog mothers, because they are nervous or have no experience giving birth to puppies for the first time, do some work poorly and take care of them poorly, causing the death of their puppies. Another possibility is that the dog has dystocia when giving birth to puppies. At this time, it is particularly important for us to deliver the dog.