Your Litter A to Z, Module 12 - Your Litter's Fourth Week

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Module 12 Documents

• Fourth Week Checklist
• Module To-Do’s

What’s In This Module

• Week 4 Basics
• Weigh Your Pups
• Continue Potty Training Your Litter
• Lactation Is Still Very High This Week
• Begin Weaning Your Pups At The End Of This Week
• Begin To Get Your Bitch Back In Shape
• Accomplish These To-Dos This Week
• Section 3 Litter Management Month 1 Quiz

📚 Section 3 Litter Management Month 1 Quiz & Certificate of Recognition 📚

Week 4 Basics

• Read Your Litter’s Fourth Week: Days 22-28
• Bitch Nutrition for Breeding / Lactation Week 4

Review Canine Development video:

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• Transcript

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

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Weigh Your Pups Every Day Or Two

Unless They Are Not Thriving, Then Weigh Daily

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
  

Continue Potty Training Your Litter

Add A Potty Box This Week, If You Are Using One

Review Potty Training Litters for potty placement

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Build or get boxes for next week:

• How To Build A Potty Box

Lactation Is Still Very High This Week

Watch For Low Calcium, Eclampsia And Mastitis

• 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
• Mastitis Report

Review Monitoring Dams and Pups, timestamp 11:59

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Begin Weaning Your Pups At The End Of This Week

• Download Raw Feeding Calculator For Litters

Sensitive Period Nutrition and Weaning video

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Begin To Get Your Bitch Back In Shape

• Read Lesson 9: Late Lactation in Fit To Be Tied
• Begin Lesson 9 Low-Risk Training Activities, if desired in Fit To Be Tied
• Review Lesson 2: Exercise Through the Breeding Cycle in Fit To Be Tied
• Review the Lactation, Weaning and Recovery Report

Accomplish These To-dos This Week

• Move pups to puppy pen, if you haven’t yet
• Begin potty training in earnest
• Play sound recordings around the room
• This is a good week to take pups to senior centers or child day care facilities because they don’t nip much
• Keep pen small, especially at night, to aid in potty training
• Trim toenails every 3 days!
• Have lots of visitors
• Begin introducing more toys and easy obstacles but don’t hinder potty training
• Enjoy the pups! This is a great week!

Section 3 Litter Management Month 1 Quiz

Complete and pass the quiz below to earn a Certificate of Litter Management: Month 1.

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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