friends girl is now on day 43 ,ive been to the vets with my friendand her girl this morning as she is coughin abit ....no temp ,but vet said could be the start of kc :( ....shes given her ABs for a week ,shes really worried ,could she loose the pups? has any1 eles had this in whelp and what was the out come ?......1 of my boys have just started coughing so ive booked him in to vets in the morning .....so looks like mine are going to get it now ...has my friend comes here most days with her dog :( i have 5 dogs ,having kc does it make them really poorly ? x

my dogs had kennel cough at the beginning of the year the got injection of the vet and they were not to bad just a bit of annoyance to them really. hope your girls ok

I've heard that Kc is doing the rounds too now.  I'm sure the Vet wouldn't have given the dog any ab's that would have affected the puppies.  There are a few virus's with Kc and most of the time its more of an irritant but it can make old or young dogs quite poorly if it gets on to the chest. 

You can give them benylin to help ease the coughing but I'd check with the Vet before giving it to a bitch in whelp. 

I give the childrens non drowsy one to my old girl who has bronchitis, as sometimes her chest gets abit rattley, and she is fine with it. 

When 1 of my dogs had it last year, I got ab's for all the others too and fortunately nobody else caught it.

Don't know about kennel cough when bitch is in whelp. However it does affect certain breeds worse than others . My sisters french bulldog had it recently and he was ill for 5 weeks , he also had the injection at the vets and medication. The vet said it was due to the short nose and that these type of breeds suffer most.
Hope your friends girl is okay. x

Not every case of kc is the same, and I have only written what I experienced and I would say that it does not mean that your friends bitch will have the same out come.

I had two girls in pup at the same time and all my dogs got kennel cough. Both were 6 weeks in whelp and one had four pups with no problems whatsoever, she had a slight cough and none of her pups showed any signs of kc, the other was quite ill with a high temperature and coughing, she had 3 pups one died at 48 hours old and another was pts at 3 weeks old.  Her remaining pup did survive but only with a lot of hard work, sleepless nights and the intervention of my vet on a few occassions to revive the pup and she did have a cough.  She is now two years old and lives a quiet but full life as a companion to a couple who absolultey adore her and of course there grandchildren who are her constant playmates.  I would stress that Mum is quite a small bitch and none of her pups weighed more than three and a half ounces.  She was fine one day and the next coughing violently with a raging temperature.  Why one had no problems with her pups and the other and her pups so ill I don't think we'll ever really know. 

All my other dogs were neither up nor down with it, a bit of a cough and a snuffle now and again.  I really hope your friends girl comes through it with nothing more than a cough and goes on to have her pups without any problems just like my other girl.

thanku every1 ive just rang to see how she is ,she said ,she had all her food :) theres no temp ,she just coughs now and then ,so hopfully with her being ABs she will be fine :) ...1 of my boys have started coughing ....i just new it !! so hubby is taking him to vets in the morning ,he is only 8months but is a big lad weighing 33kg ,but he seems very quite tonight x

friend just rang ans asked could her girl have pups early cus of this ?? she says shes panting alot but dont have a temp ??
bless her shes worried sick for her girl and pups but if she looses them she dont care (well she does ,you know what i mean)as long as her girls ok :( x

Hi
Not sure about the early labour but I worked in a kennels for years and saw kennel cough a lot. I have also had my own dogs had it. I bought a cheap harness so there was nothing around the neck causing them to cough (less stress) which seemed to help, but barking will trigger a coughing fit! I also gave a childs dose of Benylin but would ask vet first (or honey). They also had antibiotics. All mine coped really well with it but it is supposed to be worse for very young/old dogs. I would contact the vet about the panting.

Hope the bitch is ok. xxxxxxxxxx

thanku danielle for quick reply x

going to ring her now ,i did tell her to ring vets and see what they say i just dont know anything about whelping because of kc ,ive helped deliver about 10 litter now but feel usless with this as ive never come across a bich in whelp with kc....

god im sooo tired but i carnt go to bed yet untill i know her girls going to be ok :( but im sure she will

thanku jo x

my brie had kc and she went into labour on day 54.had 9 puppies bye the time they where 2 weeks old they got kc by 8week only 3 were a live

thats horrible briedog :( im so sorry ....her girl is only 43 days i think now ,so if she does have them soon thay will all be dead :(.....was your girl very bad with it? did abs not work ? how long had she had kc before she whelped ?sorry for asking all these horrible questions im just tring to find out what could be for her girl
thanku briedog x

jox

yes she was very bad that why she abo the puppies  early,it took 4 week of abc tablets to kick in, plus to help the puppies though the milk supply.
the trouble with kc you dont know that they got to untill to late when she went off her food a with a sore throat and ucles,which could be contacted to the canines herp virus,
she was tested for chv was clear of that,
the puppies that were born where under weight for a fcr litter,so by the time they were 2 weeks they were up to they birth normal weight,all were still live then but as kc takes 7 to 14 day to come,guess what that what happen the puppies started to go down one by one resulting in secondaly infectoins,result have them pts over the 8 weeks, plus one at 9 weeks,
very very sad for the dam to watch her puppies go. each time we went to vet she would scann the welping box to see how many pups where there and then count again on the return,then going mad beacuse one was missing.
would never like to go though that again.
but we did on her second litter day 52 all die within 24 hours she was put on acp tablets for 24 hours to clam her down,so she was spayed after that. she was my first bred girl in which i kept. liver in colour did well in the ring gaining her jw,but it was not to be to have one of her puppies.

Any news on how the bitch is doing?

Hope everything is ok xx

Both my girls with kc had there pups on the date they were due. 

Only the girl with the temperature had antibiotics, everyone else
had benilyn and bisolvon and came through it ok.

Hope your friends girl and your own dogs get through it ok.

thanku briedog ,her girl doent sound too bad at the mo so abs should be ok (fingers crossed) vet saw her this morning and said she should be fine .....so time will tell now xx

shes stoped panting now ...vets thinks it might be alittle stress thats making her pant ,vet said no labour so thats good xx

thanku abbypap sounds very promising for her girl now after reading your post :) xx

My bitch had KC but her pups were 3 days old, the first of the 7 pups started coughing at 6 days old and everyone got it over the next 7 days very hard work the puppies had to have antibiotics twices a dayand honey with warm water 9which they didnt like) They were all strong but it did make there little bodies shake when coughing all survived .

Hi Everyone.
I had a bitch with kennel cough when she was about 7 weeks pregnant once.   She was still coughing slightly when she gave birth.  My vet said the pups should have build some sort of defence before they were born because of their mother having it.  Anyway the pups were fine, she gave birth on time, so it didnt cause any problems.

thankyou for that both of you ,i will let her know :) xx