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Originally Posted by Vaiva
As we started talking about how bad it is to hide or just not to talk about the problems that CsW have... I want to talk about the problems with the reproductional system of some of our girls.
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I had different problem with Frei - instead of no ovulation / silent heat and not much interest of dogs, she had long proestrus with a lot of interest from males, and with coming to heat twice a year she was almost half of the year unable to play with her male friends as they were only trying to mate her. When I wanted her to mate, I went to doc for vaginal swabs and later for progesterone to be able to time the trip (I went around 900 km for mating), and the progress from proestrus to estrus was very long. But then her behavior changed suddenly from general interest in playing with males to strong standing heat and that day also her progesterone jumped to correct levels. We went for mating and were successful... The next heat we did not mate as it was only 10 months after previous, but this time her proestrus was shorter (less than 3 weeks) and she finished the standing heat just a month after starting the bleeding (but she bled and smelled nice to dogs for another couple of weeks). So I am not sure if the pregnancy was good for her or if the reproduction develops with age regardless of pregnancy. But I know that her great-grandmother (my previous wolfdog) and one female from my first litter also had very long proestrus, so it might run in the families.