Im very excited as I may be a Pup Auntie this weekend. My friends Boxer bitch is just so huge she looks like a Zeppelin, poor thing. Now shes been nesting, pacing and panting for a few days and lost the plug on Thursday. Shes being kept under her mums eye all the time now. Ive offered to help out with the litter ( unskilled jobs only!). What would be the most helpful thing I could do?

Keep the newspapers handy, towels if necessary, cups of tea/coffee, drive a car if there is a trip to the vets, just generally have that spare pair of hands.   Or if they have other dogs offer to walk them.

My newspaper collection is huge so thats good. Im away to rake through the old towels now :) They think theres at least 6 pups, but we'll see...

..keep the kettle boiling - you'll need loads of cups of cofee & tea :)

Have you got some kitchen scales & notebook - weigh each pup as it comes into the world, use separate page for each pup, record time, sex, weight, identifying marks - its then easy to see how they are doing each day.

Hotwater bottle - may or may not be needed.

Good luck!!

Margot

Hi Lorelei,

exciting isn't it :P   Have bin bags handy too for disposing of all the messy papers and unmentionables

don't forget to let us all know how things go!

Best wishes, Teri ;)

Its exciting and the closest Ill ever get to breeding :) I was hoping to miss the squsihy bit - daughters are invited to assist with that - and be useful afterwards for cleaning and feeding and handling and stuff. I imagine shell need all hands on deck for their injections at the vets.