Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Winner of Dog Writers Association of America's Dogwise Best Book Award

This book focuses on the veterinarian's responsibilities for managing the problem pregnancy, insemination, collecting, storing and shipping semen, and all of the diseases and vaccination protocols that may involve the bitch and the stud dog. It is also a very practical guide for the non-veterinarian breeder and kennel owner.

The book provides step by step guidelines for husbandry and nutrition as they relate to the bitch and her puppies, an excellent and concise description of breeding genetics and the implications of that knowledge for long term preservation of the breed line, and it focuses squarely on the relationship that must exist between the veterinarian and breeder clients.

This practical guide is the ideal resource for veterinarians as well as for breeders, kennel operators and others with a financial or humane interest in the breeding and maintenance of dogs.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Working With Breeders
• Normal Reproduction
• Basic Reproductive Care
• Genetic Selection And Screening
• Selecting Breeding Stock
• Counseling the Breeder/Client
• Specific Disease-Based Screening Examinations and Databases
• Genotypic Screening
• Line Breeding
• The Breeding Program
• Preparing To Breed
• Planning the Breeding
• Stud Dog Selection
• Preparing the Bitch for Breeding
• Timing the Bitch for Breeding
• Orchestrating the Breeding - Natural And Special Breeding
• Scheduling the Breeding Appointment
• The Normal Breeding
• Vaginal Artificial Inseminations
• Shipping Fresh Chilled Semen
• Handling Frozen Semen
• Surgical Insemination
• Transvaginal Insemination
• Managing The Pregnancy
• Environmental Management and Housing
• Drugs and Vaccines During Pregnancy
• Anthelmenthics During Pregnancy
• Nutrition
• Diagnosing the preganancy
• Managing the Abnormal Pregnancy
• Premature Labor and Hypoluteoidism
• Managing The Whelping And C - Section
• Preparing for the Whelping at Home
• The Normal Delivery
• Managing a Whelping at the Veterinary Hospital
• Tacodynamometry
• Managing the C-section
• Dystocia
• Managing the C - Section
• Techniques for Success
• Anesthesia
• Surgery - C-section and Delivery of the pups
• Resuscitation of the Neonate at Vaginal or C- Section Birth
• Discharge of the Bitch and Her Litter
• Managing the Immediate Postpartum Period In The Bitch
• Health Care
• Nutrition and Exercise
• Anthelmenthics
• Common Disorders of the Immediate Postpartum Period
• Neonatal and Pediatric Care
• The Normal Neonate
• Advanced Home Care
• Causes of Neonatal Mortality
• Neonatal Supportive Care
• The Singelton Puppy
• Taildocking and Dew Claw Removal
• Nutrition
• Preparing Puppies for a New Home
• Placing the Puppies
• Registering Litters
• Infertility And Reproductive Problems In The Valuable Bitch
• The Normal Estrous Cycle
• The Ideal Age To Breed And Frequency
• Maximizing Litter Size
• The Missed Breeding
• Planning for the Next Breeding
• Abnormal Estrous Cycles
• Failure to Maintain Pregnancy
• Hormonal Alteration of Estrous
• Pseudopregnancy
• Diagnosing Pyometra
• Miscellaneous Disorders of Pregnancy
• The Accidental Breeding
• Special Breedings
• Mammary Tumors
• Infertility And Reproductive Problems In The Valuable Stud Dog
• Breeding Soundness Examination
• Collecting the Stud Dog
• Sperm Count and Morphology
• Endocrinopathies and Hormonal Diseases
• Disorders of the Prostate
• Disorders of the Testes
• Scrotal Disorders
• Disorders of the Penis
• Failure to Achieve Sexual Maturity and Intersex
• Disorders of Copulation
• Disorders of Sperm Production
• Technical Advances in Perpetuating Male Fertility
• Special Breedings
• Working With Fresh Chilled Semen
• Breeding a Bitch With Frozen Semen
• Suggested Readings
• Appendices
• Appendix A For Technical Staff (14 elements)
• Appendix B For Telephone Staff ( 6 elements)
• Appendix C Client Information ( 15 elements)
• Appendix D For Veterinarians (16 elements)
• Index