Do Dogs Need to Be Injected with Anti-inflammatory Needle After Giving Birth to Puppies?

Whether a dog needs to be injected with an anti-inflammatory after giving birth depends on the situation. If the dog gives birth naturally and is in good condition, it generally does not need to be injected with an anti-inflammatory. If it is a caesarean section, continuous use of anti-inflammatory injections for three to five days is required.

Precautions for dogs after giving birth:

1. Clean and pay attention to keeping warm.

2. After giving birth, the mother dog becomes very fierce due to protecting the puppies. The mother dog who has just given birth should rest for 8 to 24 hours. Strangers should not approach to avoid disturbing the mother dog and causing it to bite people or swallow the puppies.

3. The mother dog generally does not eat right after giving birth. You can feed it some glucose water first, and then supplement with eggs and milk after 5 to 6 hours, before starting regular feeding after 24 hours. It is best to feed some easily digestible and palatable food. In the first few days, feed the mother dog some nutrient-rich foods such as meat, eggs, and meat porridge, and pay special attention to calcium supplementation.

4. Pay attention to the mother dog's nursing situation. If it does not feed the puppies, determine whether it is due to a lack of milk or illness, and take measures in a timely manner. If a mother dog has low milk production, you can feed it with milk, pig's trotter soup, fish soup, and pig lung soup to increase milk production.

5. Some mother dogs have poor maternal instinct and are reluctant to take care of the puppies. They should be severely reprimanded and forced to feed the puppies. You can also let the puppies cry to awaken the mother dog's maternal instinct. If the mother dog does not help the puppies defecate, you can apply cream or something else that can stimulate the mother dog to lick near the puppies' anus to induce the mother dog to lick. If the puppies are not moving flexibly, be vigilant at all times to prevent them from being crushed by the mother dog. If you hear the puppies' brief cries, check immediately and rescue the puppies in a timely manner.

6. Pay attention to keeping warm and check whether the bedding is dry at all times.