Hi
Lola my 8 month old Dobe has just started her first season
Has anyone tried the doggy sani pads? :D
Will she keep them on if I try them?
Can I walk her in quiet areas?
We live in an area where stray dogs are unheard of - but is it a risk?

Can anyone help with tips on care of her and the carpet? She appears to be totally unaware of this happening to her so she isn't cleaning herself.
Any help or tips will be appreciated. :)
:) annieee :)

Hi
I've just found ClareM's post so have read that :)

Hi

My friends GSD is in her first season, we live in an area with big grassfields, Bella has been running loose as usual and just been given her leash on, if any dogs came.

So you don't have to change that many things, just keep a better eye on her, when you go for walks!
When I lived with my mother, we had a blakc lab bitch, she was 11 when she died, and we never had any problems with male dogs hanging about, during all her seasons.

My Luna, 9 months old chocolate lab, will not be kept on a leash unless its necessary. I'll just watch over her. And she will not be given pants on! Even though I live in an appartment on the third floor!

I've heard that their first season, they can be a little slow with the cleaning, but usually they get the hang of it and keep themselves clean. The dog we had at home, was very good at this, it was very seldom you saw any bloodspots anywhere.

I hope it goes well, when my Luna comes in season :-)

Jeanette

Hi
Thanks for the reply Jeanette. Since I posted, I have got the hang of the 'search' facility and have had all my questions answered. I am still in a quandry. Bitch owners walk them and dog owners get cross :D I did road walk Lola today and had no trouble but I would hate to think I was upsetting any dogs. I have a Bulldog breeder a few doors away, I would hate to upset her. However, living so near, perhaps they would smell her even in the garden. My previous Dobe had one season and then was speyed. We would like Lola to have just one litter as we very much would like to keep a puppy. Anyway, thats a future worry :)
:) annieee :)

People that walk their bitches in season where other dogs go for walks make me cross. If you have every owned a boy you would know why.

I have three golden retriever bitches and one dog, my boy can become impossible when out on a walk if he smells a girl in season, he will go the other way to find her, wont listen and if we meet the bitch - well look out - he would mate her no trouble. It ruins our walk because then he has to go on the lead, why should he, If it is a smaller bitch he could really hurt her through trying.  If more than one male finds her that could lead to trouble. It only takes one wee and they know and will try to follow the trail.

Putting her on the lead will not make a bit of difference just makes it easier for him to get to her and it would probably terrify her as well.

I appreciate the bitches need exercise I walk mine on the lead around the roads where I know no dogs go or run loose and this has to be the routine until they have finished.

I must point out here that even though my bitches get walked while in season I would never dream of taking them where dogs are allowed off lead.  It is as you say totally unfair on the unsuspecting male dogs owner to suddenly have a disobedient dog deaf to calls.

BITCHES IF WALKED IN SEASON SHOULD ONLY BE WALKED WHERE DOGS ARE REQUIRED TO BE ON LEAD and should use discretion when another dog walker is in view, crosssing to the other side of the street and alerting the other dogs owner if needed.

There is always the slight chance of meeting a loose dog where it shouldn't be, so I would avoid the crucial few days, and also use a deodarant spray to help mask the smell.

Hi

I'm sorry, but where I live, everybody walks their dogs. I'm not going to a park or deliberately seek male dogs.
We have a big green area, where everybody walks their dogs, males and bitches. We have no choice, we can't go somewhere, where there are no male dogs.

I've NEVER experienced any problems at all, when I walked my old dog or now when I walk my friends GSD. If I see anyone coming towards me with their dog on or of their leash, I call my dog and Bella (if she is with us) to me, give them a leash on and ask/yell (depending the distance) if they can say hello, and asking if their dog is male or female (if my dog or bella is in season).

Luckily, its the same dogs I see alomost everyday, so I know which is male, and then I'll just walk another way, if Bella is with us, these days.

I'm realising more and more, as I read your posts, that we here in Denmark, keeps dog a different way, than other countries. I'm not saying we are better, but its different.

Of course you take precausions, when your dog is in season, but we can't avoid meeting male dogs! And what should I do if I couldn't walk her, what should I do? Let her do her buisness on the floor in my appartment? I live in an appartment in an area with a lot of appartments. I don't have a pen I can exercise her in, and besides, I didn't get a dog, just to keep her in a pen, I got her for the company AND the walks!

Maybe I misunderstood the tone, but I got a bit angry and hurt.

I would NEVER let neither my own dog or my friends dog get mated, when in season! First of all my Luna is only 9 months old, and my friends, Bella, is 7 months old. They are not old enough, and besides that, even if they had the right age ( 2 years or so), it wouldn't be just any dog. Both Luna and Bella pure breed chocolate labrador retriever (Luna) and German Shepherd (Bella).

Eventually we are both interested in getting a litter from them, but not now, and only with another pure bread dog respectively labrador and GSD.

So now I got of with a little steem, sorry.

Jeanette

Hi Annieee

It is generally only a few days at the height of a bitches season when dogs can get really interested - generally a few days around the 13th - 14th day after they first start bleeding.

I would keep her on the lead as much as possible as bitches do change around this time and some get very flightly, others get clingy.  With Maverick and Ko'bra, both of whom are currently in season, they tend to get selective deafness around this time whereas Fennel gets clingy and will not go far from me.

No tips for the carpet - I don't have such things :)

Hi

I got an advice from my mother concerning the carpets. If Bonnie had dripped blood on the carpet, my mother would leave it untill it was completely dried, and then she could just vacuum it up, without leaving any marks!

I'm going to try this, when Luna comes in season, which probablely will happen soon.

Jeanette