[selzer]

Jessiewessie99, Have you ever owned an intact bitch? Were you ever present when a dog was bred to a bitch?

I always have a little chuckle when people say that their dog has this oopse litter because they were at the dog park with their in heat female and she got together with an intact male and...

Now if it is a silent heat -- a phenomenen that I have never dealt with, I can understand having an in-heat female at a dog park. But even if the female is in those couple of days after ovulation when she can actually become pregnant, I would have to ask where in the world were the dog and bitch's owners while their animals got all the way around the bases.

I mean the don't just oogle each other for a second and tie in the next second. There is a whole lot of sniffing, and then some unmistakeable antics. The male generally mounts the female several times unsuccessfully before he actually manages to do the deed. Sometimes he mounts her head.

This is the thing. People say they know someone whose dogs tied through a fence. Uhm, well, being present during conception on many occasions, there is not one occassion where that would have worked at all.

Often times the stud dog owner holds the bitch and guides the dog. The dog and bitch would definitely get their eventually, but it is ceratainly not something you would know was happening if you were right there.

And two owners, the dog's owner and the bitch's owner SHOULD be able to connect their leashes and pull their animals apart LONG before any mating takes place. I do not mean pulling them apart if tied, but there is plenty of time and plenty of signs that a mating could take place if we do not step in.

If you own a bitch and a dog, it is possible that you could miss the fact that he is paying a whole lot more attention to her than usual. I never could, I mean, my boy had his nose velcro'd to my girls nether region for days before the mating.

Personally, I believe that the vast majority of oops litters are people who either want their bitch to have puppies, or do not care if she does or not. Faced with what it entails, some will drop the bitch off at a shelter and claim oops. For some rediculous reason it is more acceptable to have a litter by accident, than to have a planned litter.