Yes, but she's a lot more likely to pick up infections squatting on a dirty pavement or at a show where a few hundred other dogs have walked and weed, than in your garden at home, specially when she's in season and wide open to infection.

Touch wood I have had 6 generations of bitches that are walked daily on dirty pavements whilst in season and none has ever had a reproductive tract infection.

That reminds me I must go & scrub the grass in my garden tomorrow to make it sterile.............

Oh ha ha Christine, there's so need to be sarcastic. My bitch has had 2 infections post season, and when I didn't walk her on dirty pavements in season she was fine, so I don't care what you think.

>Yes, but she's a lot more likely to pick up infections squatting on a dirty pavement or at a show where a few hundred other dogs have walked >and weed, than in your garden at home, specially when she's in season and wide open to infection.

If this is the case why doesn't every bitch who is mated go down with an infection - after all the male is not surgically sterile and at best will be licking himself clean - few stud owners would attempt to sterilize that part of their dogs anatomy ;)

None of the entire bitches I have had, or known, have gone down with post season infections and they haven't been kept in purdah either ;)

My bitch has had 2 infections post season

I would say this was more bad luck than from walking an in season bitch.

When in season my youngest girls behaviour changes so much that i would be waisting my time taking her, she becomes really rather senative and moves like a lump of coal, this behaviour can last from a few days before a season to upto 3 weeks after one.