Hi everyone, my bitch is in season and last time she was mated she didnt take. I was going to buy ovulation pads to better detect ovulation. Does anyone know where I can get them? I tried www.ovulationpads.info but they are on holiday until 25th Jan, which will be too late for me.

I got mine off ebay. Try a search on there for dog ovulation strips and it usually brings up a couple of sellers :)

Thank you so much, I've just bought some now!

Your best guide to the right days to mate your bitch is a good stud dog and the bitch herself. You only need to see that inevitabley when a bitch is mismated by her or a males own desire they seem to become pregnant.

If you mate on alternate days up to the point she will no longer stand you will have found the right days, after that it is a matter of whether she ovulated, and the fertilised ova implant about 3 weeks later, and then whether hormone levels maintain pregnancy and developing fetuses are viable enough to reach term.

If you cannot allow about a week to 10 days for the bitch and dog to be tried together then your only sure way to accurately predict ovulation is progesterone blood testing.  If there was something reliable simpler then it would be used by reproduction specialists.

As the conception rate in bitches served at roughly the right time is very high anyway this would account for the supposed success of any other purported methods, including the owner wearing green at time of mating,

Yes I am a sceptic.  Good luck.

I had my bitch tested and she was mated last night. They tied for 25 minutes. We're going back on Tuesday.

Must wear green tomorrow then!

Haha why green? Sorry if Im being stupid lol

Green is mean't to be a lucky colour...being Irish we believe the opposite except on St Paddys day! lol

I'm closing this as we seem to have two threads on the go ;-)