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Clodagh

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The rescue lab went in to get spayed today. Vets just rang, she’s in season. ? Honestly no signs at all. Scouts been a bit sniffy but tbh he’s a young entire male and I just thought he was checking her out. He was right! Dammit. Exactly the wrong time now, in three months time will be mid shooting season.

ETA it’s 4 months to the day from her last litter and the earliest date the vets would do it
 
druid said:
Just do her after the shoot season?
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Tempting, but she will have to have yet another season, as 1st Feb is five months away. She’s kennelled with 3 males, I’m not sure the neighbours will cope.
I think they’d need a month off work for a spay?
 
Freya is just coming into season again, it seems that she goes 5.5 months. Hopefully all finished before October! Toast is being his normal, but slightly sniffy self. Freya is back in a crate at night and will move into a separate room in the next few days. She's miss clingy and is currently trying to climb on to my lap as she seems to know that it's Wednesday and we go training. Toast will be going alone today. I'm pleased that we got our slightly odd kennel conversion done as now I have 3 pens with indoor spaces that I can use when I need to be out or getting on with jobs. This is her third season and she's only 17 months. It will be her 5th (autumn) or more likely 6th (spring) season before I breed from her.
 
Clodagh said:
Tempting, but she will have to have yet another season, as 1st Feb is five months away. She’s kennelled with 3 males, I’m not sure the neighbours will cope.
I think they’d need a month off work for a spay?
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she seems to short cycle (although who can tell, her body has taken such a hammering, hormone wise) so even if you don't spay you'd still lose 3 weeks towards the end os the season, so not much difference to time off for a spay really
 
Thistle said:
Freya is just coming into season again, it seems that she goes 5.5 months. Hopefully all finished before October! Toast is being his normal, but slightly sniffy self. Freya is back in a crate at night and will move into a separate room in the next few days. She's miss clingy and is currently trying to climb on to my lap as she seems to know that it's Wednesday and we go training. Toast will be going alone today. I'm pleased that we got our slightly odd kennel conversion done as now I have 3 pens with indoor spaces that I can use when I need to be out or getting on with jobs. This is her third season and she's only 17 months. It will be her 5th (autumn) or more likely 6th (spring) season before I breed from her.
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On the one plus side Red’s character seems completely unchanged. Ffee was an absolute wet weekend.
 
Thistle said:
she seems to short cycle (although who can tell, her body has taken such a hammering, hormone wise) so even if you don't spay you'd still lose 3 weeks towards the end os the season, so not much difference to time off for a spay really
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That’s a fair point. This will be the first season she’s ever had where she hasn’t had a litter!
 
Well it’s chaos and mayhem here.
Scout is so loved up he can’t think at all. He is a bag of bones and hormones.
Red is a complete slut. You would think she would know by now the sort of trouble this behaviour leads to.
She’s been tail whanging since last Thursday, tell me it will calm down soon! Luckily she is quite unchanged temperamentally and we have really upped the training ready for November.
 
Sounds horrendous Clodagh. I've never been through it and am sort of dreading it with little Miss Molly Weim

On that note can you more experienced lot tell me whether it's normal for a 15 month bitch of her size not to have had a season yet?
I can't imagine that i've completely missed her having one. There is nothing subtle about Weims on any level, so I don't think the event would just quietly slip past us all !
 
Mine's seems to have lasted for about three weeks. There was no spotting at all this time and no excessive licking etc. The only reason I know is the date, slightly heavier odour and the fact that the boys were bitching where she had pee'd. Much less howling from them than during previous seasons!!
 
Clodagh said:
Well it’s chaos and mayhem here.
Scout is so loved up he can’t think at all. He is a bag of bones and hormones.
Red is a complete slut. You would think she would know by now the sort of trouble this behaviour leads to.
She’s been tail whanging since last Thursday, tell me it will calm down soon! Luckily she is quite unchanged temperamentally and we have really upped the training ready for November.
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Lucky you, my best bitch has zero brain when the hormones join us. The stud dog is a saint and would work through anything!

Shady said:
On that note can you more experienced lot tell me whether it's normal for a 15 month bitch of her size not to have had a season yet?
I can't imagine that i've completely missed her having one. There is nothing subtle about Weims on any level, so I don't think the event would just quietly slip past us all !
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I am never concerned about lack of seasons until 18-24 month particularly if dog is fit/athletic
 
I think today the worst is over, she blanked him when he started parading at the kennel during changeover. Not that I’ll be risking anything for a week or more yet!
I did actually take him for some low impact training and he picked up cold game for the first time. I’m delighted, he bought it straight back. He doesn’t like dummies so training is limited by his attention span.
Red wouldn’t pick it, she was quite bemused why I was chucking a dead chicken around ?
 
Shady said:
Sounds horrendous Clodagh. I've never been through it and am sort of dreading it with little Miss Molly Weim

On that note can you more experienced lot tell me whether it's normal for a 15 month bitch of her size not to have had a season yet?
I can't imagine that i've completely missed her having one. There is nothing subtle about Weims on any level, so I don't think the event would just quietly slip past us all !
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Mrs Collie was 2 years and 4 months old when she had her first season!
 
Karran said:
Mrs Collie was 2 years and 4 months old when she had her first season!
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Oh that's good to know .Thank you :)
I've been sort of looking at her and thinking , please don't have a problem as i've had such a terrible year animal wise.

Errin Paddywack said:
My first collie was 20 months on her first season then it was 9 months before her next.
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Thanks Errin love:)
I'm better with cat seasons, so 15+ months seems really long to not have had one yet !
 
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