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Our schnauzer just lost her entire litter . . .
Hello,Our family has two purebred miniature schnauzers, one male and one female. The male was bred by a local and reputable breeder, who has become our mentor over the years. Two years ago our dogs bred successfully and had five beautiful, healthy puppies. We recently decided to breed one last time, however, our outcome was drastically different. Our female was due on March 18th (from the first date that they tied), but she went into labor on March 11th.
The first two puppies were born alive and later died. We packed up the car and our dog and headed over to the breeders house for assistance, answers, something- and our dog gave birth to a dead puppy in the car. Puppy #4 and #5 were born at the breeder’s home, but they died as well. Four puppies probably would have survived if they hadn’t been born so early.
We took her to the vet because at this point we of course wanted to make sure our dog was okay. They told us she didn’t have any more puppies inside of her and that she looked okay, was acting normal, etc. They have no reason to believe that this was caused by an infectious disease because she is up-to-date on shots and hasn’t been bred with another dog; our male hasn’t either. Based on the fact that she had a healthy litter before, and also because four puppies were born alive but died because they were premature (the vet actually looked at two of them and confirmed they were premature but otherwise looked normal without any abnormalities), they believe that this is an isolated event. Most likely cause, I’m told, is that her body was trying to expel the dead puppy which caused her to go into preterm labor.
Have you ever experienced or heard of something like this? Thank goodness our dog is safe, and otherwise healthy, but we are looking for closure. We trust the vet but since we do not know for sure I was hoping to get some feedback from other breeders too, in addition to the breeder that is mentoring us. Thank you.
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