medication to induce heat cycle - Page 1

Does anyone use medication to shorten the cycle between heats. Is this safe. Its used more than we want to know

PG600 has been used many times to bring bitches into season. Made for swine, but used on canines with success. It is given by injection IM and the bitch should come in within a week. The injection burns like nothing else. Have your bitch muzzled and someone to hold her while another gives the injection. The injection site will be very sore for the following few days, but other than that it is safe.

Is it safe for a bitch that has never been in heat? She is 14 months old - kind of running behind?

Why do you want to induce her cycle?? Why not let it come naturally? Anytime you use any medication you are taking a risk. I had a female that never had a cycle until 17 months, and once she did, she cycles every 4 months, and she is fine.

Never give any heat inducing product to a female dog that has not had a natural heat first. A 14 month old dog who has not had a heat yet, is not that unusual. A five year old is. Even so, I had a 4 year old that had her first heat cycle, then had one every nine moths. Otherwise she was a healthy, happy good looking dog. She lived to be 16 years old. Giving hormones to induce a heat cycle in a young undeveloped female dog female will cause developmental problems with her ovaries and other reproductive parts. A young female dog who was not fully developed, by giving an inducing hormone, she will not come into heat regularly, and will not develop any more, because her body is tricked into thinking it is fully formed and most likely never developed eggs. The potential risk of no eggs, irregular heat cycles makes not worth using in the first place. Some may get lucky but most will ruin a young female dog by giving them hormones. In canines the different hormone therapies are used on mature dogs. at least Four or Five years old, who have had some natural cycles and are definitely fully developed. Then you have several choices of different hormones to try, not medicines. Be sure at this time to have a veterinarian administer the hormones, especially being you are just learning about these products. Then it is usually given to those who come in every 18 - 24 months, one time as a last shot. Maybe change your dog food, at something with high fat content on top of the food. Bacon grease, canola oil, sassafras oil, etc. Exercise is another factor, just about anyone can tell you about training / exercising a dog for the AD, seems to bring them right on in. Others have stress heats right after the AD. I am sure many can tell you of taking their female on a long trip for a trial or a show and soon as they get back, the stress had induced a heat cycle. Also, if she is a house pet or something and never around male dogs, exposure to male dogs and the pheromones they emit, will often get the right hormones to kick in, in the female dog. Hope This Helps Brian DeBow

Oops! Where I wrote "Bacon grease, canola oil, sassafras oil, etc" I meant to write safflower oil, not sassafras oil. I will go a little more in detail about this. Commercial dog food can not have a high fat content because they can not preserve, keep it from rotting and going rancid in their paper dog food bags. So by adding bacon grease, canola oil, safflower oil, peanut butter oil, lard etc to commercial kibbles. You are increasing the fat content of the dog food. Making any dog food into a super premium dog food. This increases the coat shine, energy level and health in general. This also falls into do not give to much of a good thing. A couple of tablespoons if feeding once daily, if twice one in each is generally enough. As always, consult your veterinarian before radically changing or altering your dogs diet. Hope This Helps Brian DeBow

All right. I just was wandering, thank you, vomveiderheiss and PSYGOD, for your comments. I've never heard of such products/hormones, but I also have never had a dog who wouldn't have her first cycle by the age of 9 months old! So was just getting a little anxcious :) ... 4 years old sounds extreme though! I'm just about to start training her for AD - will see if it helps. I occasionally do add some becon grease and chiken necks with skin and fat on them to their food...

If the dog is not sick then why would you even consider doing a painful burning procedure that requires the dog being muzzled up and not only that but put a lot of stress on the dog just so that you want the dog to start her heat cycle early? I say... WAIT! let mother nature do her thing.

PG600 is used when there are serious concerns about a female's ability to come in. Of course any bitch under 2yrs is too young to be worried about. If someone has a 4yr old bitch that they want to breed, but has never come in, PG600 would definately be an option. I have a very aggressive Greif bitch with higher than normal testosterone levels, thus messing with the normal hormone cascade that tells her body to come into heat...At the age of 6, I administered PG600 and she had her first heat and produced a healthy litter. A high testerone level in a bitch will prevent her from coming in. All Cheque drops(Mibolerone) do is raise the tes level in bitches to prevent them from coming in. Upjohn had a very lucrative deal with Hills to produce a feed that contained the Cheque drops untill Roe vs Wade caused Upjohn to take them off the market.

I just re read my post. It was not the Hills Co. but Carnation that had the deal to market the feed with the Cheque drops in it. We were just talking about the old Science Diet Max Stress pellets that came in the 25lb gold tins and I had Hills on my mind.