Female in house during heat - Page 5

My Kali hated the ruffled panties I got her, & refused to leave them on. However she was so clean, she never left a mess. Her 2 daughters, however are at opposite extremes, 1 of them is as fastidious as she was, & the other is an awful slob, who not only leaves messes, but wags her tail, & bounces around as tho' she's trying to spread her nastiness everywhere!
so you can see, each bitch is an individual.  
Good luck! jackie harris

It's a toss up.  Males and females are different sizes and very different temperaments.  Male dogs pee alot and even
when  u think they are housebroken, u sometimes find stains on your curtains etc.
Females are nasty in the house when in season, if they must be inside limit to one tiled floor room.
They bleed alot and blood stains the carpets.  Some females can be nasty with other female dogs when
they are in season as well.  JMO

Blitzen: aakay, have you ever had a bitch die or need emergency surgery due to pyometra?

Are you talking about the spaying thing ?  If so, then how do animals cope with the unspayed state, in nature ?  Without humans intervening into their anatomies, they must be surviving somehow ?

Some females can be nasty with other female dogs when they are in season as well.

I would not trust 2 females together, whether they are in season or not !  You could have one or two dead animas to cope with, and things could happen with absolutely zero warning, after they seem to be getting along pretty well. Does not matter whether they are 2 unrelated ones or whether they are related.

I just asked if you ever had a bitch that got pyometra, that's all. A dog "in nature" would probably not live long enough to get pyo; it is normally a disease of an older female who is past her productive years and has already produced a number of progeny. Wild dogs don't have a very long life expectancy.

This wild dogs don't live that long thing is always perpetuated as a reason for human interference, but I have a good friend who works for a museum. He picks up all sorts of wild canids who died from all sorts of causes, all over the world and does necropsies and taxidermy on them. Some live a very long time. I have seen skulls and teeth of wolves estimated to be 17+. Teeth are broken and worn, not decayed. Some die of starvation, at an advanced age, simply not fast and agile enough to hunt successfully anymore, or in fights for rank. 

Not saying pyo is a good thing, just saying this idea that wild canids only live a few years is not entirely accurate. Sure, it's a scary dangerous world out there and many do die young, but not typically from circumstances like a lack of spaying and neutering or improper diet or vaccines as some people would like to believe. 

OK, whatever, I've buried 2 older bitches that died from pyo and had emergency surgery on one. Saw many pyo surgeries, some lived, some didn't but in every case it was touch and go and major surgery. So, I'll spay my older bitches, you guys can do what you want.

Thanks.

I had an older female (Dobermann) who died of cancer (over 17 years back !) at the age of 10.....never spayed and never bred.  She was an excellent dog overall, and some said (after seeing how good she was) she should have been bred for the improvement of the breed etc., but I was never inclined towards breeding her.

Was it mammary cancer? Or some other kind? I know many lines of Dobermanns are not long-lived. I think people should pay more attention to longevity in breeding. Sadly, 10 isn't that bad for a Dobe.