Bred females didnt deliver. ????

[call-me-ish]

My oldest son came to visit over Mothers Day and my daily routines were altered somewhat. I typically keep my dogs seperated at night after feeding and let them back together in the morning for the day. I have 3 females and one male(all intact and whole) so I keep an eye on the girls and document their cycles. For three days I just fed and sprayed the pens out, because of the high pace of the weekend. On Sunday morning I turned them all out quickly on my way to church.

Returning home late Sunday night I discovered two of my females in full blown heat (swelled& bleeding) and my male totally disinterested. I concluded they were both bred, put the girls up and kept them seperated till cycles were complete. (2weeks)

July 4th I had two hounds showing all the signs of delivering around the perspective date of July 14th. I fixed their brood boxes and started supplementing with liver & cottage cheese. By the delivery date they both seemed to just be drying up. Fatter than town hounds but obviously not pregnant. Any ideas??? One still has nipple secretions.

[Unreal_tk]

False pregnancy. I've seen it happen once. I bet someone else will know more than I.

[Kempy]

False preg. Very common, don't know why.

[1bludawg]

Yes ,false pregnancy.Forgive me if you already know this but a female usually won't accept a male until the 8th day AFTER the first sign of blood .The heat cycle usually goes like this 7 days coming in,they'll accept the male the next 7 days and then 7 days going out.That's a typical heat cycle but some females will vary somewhat .

[call-me-ish]

I appreciate the responses, and yes I am familiar with breeding timing, but I was thrown off by the fact that my male (who is always in heat) had absolutely no interest in the girls that evening.

It is indeed a blessing for me because of timing. I just never experienced the false pregnancy issue before. Thanks for everybody,s input.