When to get a Caesarean section for your pregnant dog?
Channel: Dr David Sing
Date: 2016-05-31

May 31, 2016

This is a veterinary educational video teaching dog breeders when to ask a vet for an emergency or elective Caesarean section using case studies from the files of Dr Sing Kong Yuen, Toa Payoh Vets.

In this Dachshund, the left uterine horn has no pups. The right one has 3 pups jammed up. This would lead to dystocia and the owner opted for an emergency Casearean section when he noted that the 2nd pup did not come out 3 hours after the appearance of the first pup.  

No injectable IV sedation was given to the dam, but the breeder deemed that the puppies were weak due to the gaseous anaesthesia.

8 guidelines are given for the breeder as to when to go for Caesarean section.