Approximately 20 days after mating, symptoms such as loss of appetite and vomiting will appear. Then the appetite returns to normal and the mammary glands slowly swell. At this time, your dog is about to become a mother.

The average gestation period is 58-63 days for female dogs and 63-66 days for female cats. There are no obvious changes in female dogs during the early stages of pregnancy (the first 15 days). About 20 days later, a small number of pregnant female dogs may experience loss of appetite and vomiting, which lasts for 1-2 days. While sleeping, the abdominal circumference becomes larger and the breasts develop. In the second half of pregnancy, female dogs are prone to fatigue, urinate frequently, look for nests, make nests, and dig the ground, their mammary glands secrete milk, their vulva becomes enlarged with a small amount of light yellow sticky secretions, and some female dogs and cats lose their appetite.

During pregnancy, you should bathe as little as possible, avoid strenuous exercise, avoid changing the environment, reduce stress, pay attention to strengthening nutrition, and feed foods rich in protein and minerals, such as feeding puppies and cat food, and add appropriate calcium Quality, but care should be taken to proceed step by step to avoid excessive obesity of female dogs and cats and excessive fetal hypertrophy, which may increase the chance of dystocia.

Testing can be done regularly during pregnancy. For example, B-ultrasound can be used for diagnosis after 19 days of pregnancy, abdominal wall palpation can be done around 20-30 days of pregnancy, and X-ray examination can be done after 40 days of pregnancy. It is important to have an X-ray before delivery. On the one hand, you can know the number of fetuses and detect fetuses and retained placenta early; on the other hand, you can know whether there are oversized fetuses or malformed fetuses, so that caesarean section can be performed as soon as possible.