Michele McAtee Webboard User Reg: 02-05-2006
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My female is in heat, and obviously in the fertile period part. My male is insane and not eating but a few nibbles here and there for the last 4 days today. ? Will I be seeing a big relief change here soon or will there be repercussions from this crazy time for him?
From what I have heard from breeders it is normal for the male to not eat when the female is in heat. When her heat is done, things should go back to normal. If you are concerned, maybe one of the dogs can stay with a friend for a few days?
Natalya Zahn Webboard User Reg: 12-22-2006
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Quote: Angela Burrell
From what I have heard from breeders it is normal for the male to not eat when the female is in heat. When her heat is done, things should go back to normal. If you are concerned, maybe one of the dogs can stay with a friend for a few days?
Ditto, from everything I have heard. I know a fair number of hobby breeders (with only a pair or handful of breeding dogs) who send their males to stay with friends during this time - getting them completely out of their hormone soaked home environment usually settles them down and they can exist more normally until things are acceptable for them to return home. Poor lustful boys...
Michele McAtee Webboard User Reg: 02-05-2006
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I'm not a breeder. I just happen to have a male and female who are both a year and 3 months old. 2nd cycle for the female, but this one is much more intense than her first one. I will keep the possibility of keeping him away from here for the next heat cycle. This is insane! Poor lustful boys :rolleyes: lol.
Thanks for the insight.
Michele McAtee Webboard User Reg: 02-05-2006
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Oh Bogie.
Just FYI, any of you who are interested, the lil pic of the cattle dog looking pup beneath where you click to get to the board is now a 1 year 3 month old Big boy in da house. Poor Huck Finn, skinny boy.
I just took him out for some ob and he's doing great, albeit a bit wiggly and concerned. I've been keeping my expectations very low during this time.
Anne Jones Webboard User Reg: 04-29-2004
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Zasha is about to go into heat within the next week or so. (Bodie's keeping a close watch on her) He gets pretty charged up for the middle week or so of her heat cycle. He eats, but not quite as much as usual. He wines, alot more than usual, really gets a bit crazed for a couple of days. As soon as she is out of heat, everything returns back to normal....whatever that is. :-)
We had the same, if not worse, experience with our dogs when our 2 females went into heat back to back. Poor Otto was losing his mind! We got both the girls fixed, because I know I wouldn't have been able to handle his ridiculous behaviour, which included howling when he was outside by himself-very morose howling, like he missed his ladies, lol. He constantly was sniffing butts (cats included) and "jabber jawing" (after smelling something he liked) and didn't want to leave either of our females alone. At night, we normally would let them all be loose in the house, but while either girl was in heat, Otto and one of the girls would have to be in their crates inside-we tried having just Otto in a crate and he would bark and howl and go on like an idiot-poor dog.
All I have to say is that when we get land and have a kennel set up, I know what to expect when the females go into heat,
I feel your pain. Frost is in standing heat right now. Sinjin is pretty good for the heat cycle with exception of a few days when she is in standing heat, so right now I am ready to kill him :-)
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