{"id":17,"date":"2007-11-29T18:29:28","date_gmt":"2007-11-29T18:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/earthtravel.net\/dog\/?p=17"},"modified":"2007-11-29T18:29:28","modified_gmt":"2007-11-29T18:29:28","slug":"whelp-or-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/earthtravel.net\/dog\/?p=17","title":{"rendered":"Whelp or Birth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\" color=\"#000000\" face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"><a href=\"http:\/\/earthtravel.net\/dog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/breeding-birth.jpg\" title=\"Alda giving birth to black puppy\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/earthtravel.net\/dog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/breeding-birth.jpg\" alt=\"Alda giving birth to black puppy\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><font size=\"2\" color=\"#000000\" face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">To prepare for whelping, they are put in stalls that contain plastic wading pools lined with newspapers. <\/font><font size=\"2\" color=\"#000000\" face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">When labor begins, the females start to &#8220;nest&#8221;\u2014tearing the newspapers into small pieces and settling into the pools. During birth, the Kennel staff is present to monitor the labor and delivery and assists when needed. This assistance may involve assessing fetal heart rates, qualifying uterine contractions, resuscitating newborn puppies, clamping bleeding umbilical cords, and feeding females tired from a long whelp. (From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guidedogs.com\/breeding-whelp.html\">Guide Dogs for the Blind<\/a>)<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 To prepare for whelping, they are put in stalls that contain plastic wading pools lined with newspapers. When labor begins, the females start to &#8220;nest&#8221;\u2014tearing the newspapers into small pieces and settling into the pools. During birth, the Kennel staff is present to monitor the labor and delivery and assists when needed. This assistance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[31,35,36,34,32,33,29],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whelp-or-birth","tag-birth","tag-contractions","tag-cords","tag-delivery","tag-labor","tag-nest","tag-whelp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/earthtravel.net\/dog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/earthtravel.net\/dog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/earthtravel.net\/dog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/earthtravel.net\/dog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/earthtravel.net\/dog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/earthtravel.net\/dog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/earthtravel.net\/dog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/earthtravel.net\/dog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/earthtravel.net\/dog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}