I think my dog is having puppies?

HOW LONG DOSE IT TAKE STAFFIES TO HAVE THERE PUPPYS AND HOW WILL I NO SHE IS HAVING PUPPYS

2 months and you know when she starts looking for places and she starts acting strange my dog just had puppies in september and is about to have more in a couple weeks

Get your dog spayed, emanresu1...don't be part of the problem, be part of the solution. Spay your dog and let her live a long happy life!

phrannie

Ya know...I just answered another question here about "does anybody care about all the dogs and cats on death row"...You might do well to read it, also, emanresu1...or better yet, take a hike to the local dog pound on "kill day"...hang out for a few hours...you might not be "smiling" by the end of your experience.

phrannie

SPAY YOUR DOG! stop adding to the problem!

Hello your answer is about 63 days. I mark the day on the calender from when she was bred. Do you know when she hooked up with a male dog? This is called tied, she tied with a male.

There are several ways to tell she is getting ready to have her puppies, if you don't have the day she is due.

One is the puppies do drop, meaning they are not under the rib cage anymore but are moving towards the birthing position. Most of the puppies are lined up on each side of your dog in what is called the horns. There are two. If you see an xray you may see puppies in the middle but that puppy is still in the horn.

Her milk will come in 5 to 7 days before puppies are due.

She will start nesting, meaning looking for a dark out of the way place to have the puppies. May even be at the end of your couch to under your night stand.

You should start taking her temperture rectally several days before your due date. Her temp. will go any where from 102 or 98 to 96 or 92 meaning it drops. When the temp. drops you have about 12 hours or less.

The best thing to do if you are new to this, is take her to your Vet's have an exam and an X-ray done. This way you will have a better idea when the puppies are due and how many she will be having. This is not expensive to have done.

You need to have a puppy box. A small plastic pool is great or have one built that is out of boards with a little rail or rod running along the sides. This will help her not lay on the puppies accidently. If she tries to have the puppies anywhere else just move her to the box when she starts her labor. She will stay. Make sure the box is in an out of the way spot. Have lots of paper towels ready and old towels to help clean up. If you build your puppy box have something under it like a piece of plastic or something like that. Vinyl flooring is good, you might get a sample from a local store. Something you can clean, because birth is messy.

READ! READ! everything you can on whelping. That is what dog's having puppies is called. She is ready to whelp or she has whelped her puppies.

Good luck puppies are great and fun but a lot of work and you will have to make sure they go to the Vet at 3 days old to have their dew claws done and 6 weeks for shots and deworming. Qualify your homes and make sure your puppies go to the best forever homes you can find for them. Be selective. 8 weeks old is a good time to run an ad in your local paper for homes. I would put a price on them because this way if someone if willing to buy the pup they are more likely to take care of it.

Good luck - do research - search the web on whelping a litter.

well dont listen to all those rude people I mean yeah you should of spayed your dog but its too late for that so yeah uhm it takes two months for a dogs pregnancy and also when shes about to give birth she will be looking for nesting place mostly your bed lol and uhm she will most defenatl act differerent also you can feel and see the pups when there moving this is a sign that shes about to give birth and have a discharge also!!

hope I helped!!