My bitch missed on her last breeding :( was sure it was the right time ....!!!! she only has a season every 11 months so will have a long wait.
Does anyone elses have this problem and could it be a problem as to why she missed.Thanks for any advice x

It happens more often than you think. There are many reasons as to why. The wrong time of mating, which can be helped next time by ovulation testing by your vets, to something wrong with the dog's sperm, or the bitch getting an infection. These are just 3 reasons.

You have the opposite problem to me, in that my bitch has a season every 19 weeks which means that she doesn't have enough hormones to stay pregnant. My male is also infertile, not a good combination ;-)

Next time your bitch is in season I would take her to the vets for ovulation testing, and make sure that the male has sired at least one litter and is, therefore, fertile :-p

Thanks for your reply.

The stud has had a big litter before and next time L will take your advice and have a ovulation test done.

Every 19 weeks thats very close has she had a litter before. Is it a small breed ????

No, she is a Munsterlander, so not a small breed. She had a litter 3 years ago and has had the short seasons since -:( She is going in to be spayed as soon as her seasons allow. She was pregnant last time but reabsorbed her litter so I have decided not to try again. That's her daughter in my Avatar.

Shes gorgeous !!!!! love all the gundog breeds. We have a Golden Retriever.

As she's had a reabsorption I would speak with my vet about canine herpes virus as a possible cause for her missing.  It causes very little if any symptoms in your dogs but will kill puppies causing reabsorption, abortion or fading puppy syndrom with  deaths, we have mated 4 girls this time with 2 reabsorbing, 1 ours whilst the other was visiting, vet suspects as the stud was elderly his sperm may not have been of viable quality. 

The other 2 have missed despite using ovulation tests for timing sooo my vet has suggested we get our girls swabbed for infection and a course of antibiotics next season, boys have already been checked just incase they were infertile which they're not.  Finally he suggested following the CHV protocols as a precaution just incase they have picked it up whilst showing or just on a walk, seems inorder to verify would require 2 blood tests 2 wks apart after a stress event in a bid to get the dogs to shed the virus - not always reliable so jabs it is for us. 

I have had bitches miss on occasion, but fortunately never two seasons in a row.

In fact Lexi has just had a C section (first pup no problem, then nothing, oxy failed to yield resutlst) for her third and last litter, she missed last time. 

She also missed the first time I mated her, but took the next season, then the same next time I wanted a litter she missed, but had a litter the next season.

With the first two misses I used a different Male next time, but this time I used the same dog again that she missed to.

I had a fertile bitch miss to a proven stud dog (still siring litters with other bitches) on three successive seasons. When I mated her to his full brother she conceived a lovely litter. Sometimes two individuals just don't work together.

Thanks every one for your advice. Fingers crossed for next time.