I have a litter of lovely pups at the moment and they are at the side of the bed, as mums a real baby and sleeps on my bed normally, so I thought she would like to be close etc.
In the night when I am there she sleeps in the bed with the pups perfectly.
In the day time she takes the pups and scatters them all over the bed room, pulls her soft bed of the heat pad, drags it around the room, first I though she does not like the heat pad but she stills moves the bed when its off the pad and I dont know why she does this, is it because she is upset I am not there or what, I am worried as the pups are only a day or two old and will get cold as they are only a topy breed. H E L P ! !
Bar sitting with her all day to keep her happy!

Can you not take the mum and pups into the living area when you are up and about? This way she can see you. It may only be a temporary thing whilst she settles with the pups. The only other way I can think of would be to crate her and the pups. Sorry I can't be of much help otherwise :(

Hi Guest,

I put a pen around my whelping box so that mum (a first timer!) could step out from the pups but not get too far away (litter was in our bedroom too and mum is a "bed buddy" by nature :P )

Over and above that to be honest I didn't leave her alone with them for the first three weeks - except say when I was preparing dinner and then we left a baby monitor on so that we could hear any stirring around or squeaks from the pups.  Any housework and food shopping etc was only done when one of the family came home from work/uni to give me a chance to catch up :rolleyes: never known as much over time done in my life!!!!!! 

Maybe I was over the top, don't know, but even although it was very tiring and obviously very time consuming it gave me peace of mind.  Incidentally as the pups became more mobile and were in and out of their whelping box they still had one of the family's company 24/7 until the day all (but our own) left for their new homes :)   HTH Teri

Guest the most cimmomn cayse fir such behaviour is the life threatening conditon of eclampsia.  Take your bitch to the bet, and he will probably give her a shot os calcium and she will calm down.  You will most likely have to supplement her with a spcial Calcium supplement throught lactation.

maybe she thinks they are too hot?
that sometimes happens,,,,,