Your Litter A to Z, Module 11 - Your Litter's Third Week

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Module 11 Documents

• Third Week Checklist
• Module To-Do’s
• Puppy Weight Tracker (1-10 pups)
• Puppy Weight Tracker (11-20 pups)
• How Much to Supplement Your Pup Spreadsheet – OUNCES
• Administrative Schedule download

What’s In This Module

• Week 3 Basics
• Gather The Supplies You’ll Need For This Week
• Continue To Weigh Your Pups Twice A Day
• Deworm Your Puppies For Roundworms Around Day 21
• Wrap Up Early Neuro Stimulation And Early Scent Introduction
• Set Up A Stimulating Environment For Your Pups
• Start Potty Training Your Litter
• Submit Blood For A Nomograph
• Increase Your Bitch’s Food Per The Nutrition For Breeding Schedule
• Lactation Is Peaking This Week
• Watch Your Bitch For Mastitis
• Your Bitch Can Start Short Walks
• Accomplish These To-dos This Week

Week 3 Basics

• Read Your Litter’s Third Week: Days 15-21
• Review Canine Development Video below:

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Your pups are in the Transition Period. Learn about Transition Period puppies.

Transition Puppies video

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Transition Period Roles video

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Gather The Supplies You Will Need For This Week

• Shopping List: Your Litter’s Third Week

Continue To Weigh Your Pups Twice A Day

Download the Puppy Weight Worksheets, if you haven’t already

Puppy Weight Trackers

• Puppy Weights Google Sheet When you open this link, you will be instructed to copy the G sheet to your own Google drive. This spreadsheet can be used for weights in grams, ounces, and pounds.
• Download the Puppy Weight Tracking spreadsheets below. Note: If you are using Chrome as your browser, you must DOWNLOAD the spreadsheets FIRST, then begin entering your information.
  Excel – Puppy Weights Worksheet for Litters with 1-10 pups
  Excel – Puppy Weights Worksheet for Litters with 11-20 pups
  Numbers – Puppy Weights Worksheet for Litters with 1-10 pups
  

Deworm Your Puppies For Roundworms Around Day 21

• Read Preventing Puppy Diarrhea in Litters
• Read Deworming Dams and Puppies

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Wrap Up Early Neuro Stimulation And Early Scent Introduction With Your Pups On Day 16

Download ENS and ESI Worksheet, if you haven’t already

• ESI/ENS Tracking Form

Watch Neonate Sense Stimulation video, if you need to review

If you are doing Early Neurological Stimulation or Biosensor with your pups, continue it once a day, each day this week.

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Early Scent Introduction video if you need to review

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See Gayle do ENS and ESI on a pup

To enlarge the video below, click play, then click the square in the bottom right corner to enter full screen.

Set Up A Stimulating Environment For Your Pups

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Start Potty Training Your Litter

Pee pads are often easiest on pups this age.

Review Potty Training Litters for potty placement

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Build or get boxes for next week:

• How To Build A Potty Box

Submit Blood For A Nomograph, If You Did Not Do So Before The Whelping

• Canine Nomographs eBook

Increase Food Per The Nutrition For Breeding Third Week Lactation Schedule

• Bitch Nutrition for Breeding / Lactation Week 3

Lactation Is Peaking This Week

Watch For Eclampsia And Supplement With Calcium If You See Strange Behaviors.

• Read the Calcium Report
• Calculate how much calcium and of what type to give her during whelping
• Read the calcium section of Labor and Whelping
• Eclampsia Report

Review Monitoring Dams and Pups, timestamp 11:59

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Watch Your Bitch For Mastitis

• Mastitis

Your Bitch Can Start Short Walks

If She Desires, But Do Not Do Any Training With Her This Week

• Read Lesson 8, Early Lactation (Birth to 21 Days) in Fit To Be Tied

Accomplish These To-dos This Week

• Finish ENS and ESI
• Check for ear function daily
• Add and rotate toys and footing in box
• Get distemper-parvo titer on dam if you did not do it before whelping
• Trim toenails every 3 days!
• Have visitors
• Schedule medical appointments
• Purchase microchips
• Submit the litter registration, if you haven’t already and need to
• Get ready for Week 4!

Your Litter A to Z Table of Contents

Section 1: Pre-Breeding

• Intro to Your Litter A to Z
• Module 1: Preparing Your Dogs For the Breeding
• Module 2: She’s In Season

Section 2: Pregnancy & Whelping

• Module 3: The First Trimester (From ovulation to Day 21)
• Module 4: The Second Trimester (Day 22-42)
• Module 5: Placing Your Puppies
• Module 6: The Third Trimester (Day 43-whelping)
• Module 7: Labor & Whelping

Section 3: Litter Management: Month 1

• Module 8: The First 48 Hours (Birth to 48 hours)
• Module 9: Your Litter’s First Week (Birth to Day 7)
• Module 10: Your Litter’s Second Week (Day 8-14)
• Module 11: Your Litter’s Third Week (Day 15-21)
• Module 12: Your Litter’s Fourth Week (Day 22-28)

Section 4: Litter Management: Month 2

• Module 13: Your Litter’s Fifth Week (Day 29-35)
• Module 14: Your Litter’s Sixth Week (Day 36-42)
• Module 15: Your Litter’s Seventh Week (Day 43-49)
• Module 16: Sending Puppies Home
• Module 17: Your Litter’s Eighth Week (Day 50-56)
• Module 18: After the Eighth Week (Day 57 and beyond)

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