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How to deliver your gundog’s pups!

Your bitch is heavily pregnant and you can’t wait for the pups’ to be born – but do you know what to do when her time comes?

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Common sense should dictate the amount of exercise you give a pregnant bitch, and the same goes for all the other things you allow her to do before she gives birth.

I’ve had some people boast tome that they worked their bitch that day, and she had the pups perfectly normally that very night.

This is folly. Idiocy.

Sooner or later these people will have a disaster and end up losing all the puppies, and possibly the bitch as well.

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