Mr Handsome
Last Friday a bitch owner came here with his young dog. She is about 18 months and in heat for the second time, which is were it is considered OK to breed on her. However, the owner is an amateur and does not now anything about breeding dogs. He brought his two daughters, who were pretty much out of control, and the whole meeting turned into an overexcited mayhem, with screaming and laughing kids and stressed dogs. The bitch had not reached her peak either, so she did not let Barak near her rear end.
Two days later we went to their house instead and this time we settled that the kids stayed in the house to leave the dogs with some peace and quiet. Now the bitch was receptive and Barak mounted her several times, but he never tied. When dogs breed, the male has swelling glands at the base of the penis that swell inside of the bitch and in that way tie them together for some time, up to 20 minutes. This is by no means necessary for the bitch to conceive, but this was exactly what the bitch owner had been told by his vet, who even offered him to milk Barak of sperm, make a cocktail and inseminate the bitch for 800 ILS. We even talked to our own vet Pini, who just shook his head and mumbled something about bogus.
Some show-off with my dog at the beach
On the third day Barak also mounted the bitch on several occasions, but never tied. The bitch acted very inexperienced as the virgin she really is and did not stand still, so I assisted them a lot as he came on to her. After the third day I was convinced that she was full of sperm, since she even started to reject him, but to make the owner calmer, we gave it another go.
As we arrived on the fourth day she first rejected him completely. We tried to hold her still, but then she got frantic. We then let them run freely for a while and all of a sudden he was on top of her again. I kept some distance not to disturb, but observed them carefully in case that she would panic if he tied to her. To our satisfaction he was stuck, and just as I predicted, her inexperience made her panic and try to pull away. I was quickly there to calm her down and they ended up in a nice tying for about 15 minutes.
The tied dogs after Barak has turned around
The owner had initially wanted to leave the dogs completely alone down in the garden, while we went for coffee upstairs, but I never agreed to this. A responsible dog breeder would never allow dogs to breed unsupervised, especially when one or both of the dogs are less experienced. If I had not been there when she panicked, Barak could have ended up with a seriously injured penis. Now everybody is happy and soon we will see some beautiful puppies. Same day we went to see another beautiful long-haired German Shepherd bitch, but she has another 3-4 days before she is receptive.
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