I once adopted a beautiful Chow dog that had 4 litters of puppies by the time she was 4 years old. Her prior owners basically bred her for the cash the pups provided and did not care about her health. I don't even think they knew her bloodlines. When I asked about grand sires they had no clue. It was after I acquired her that I did a pedigree search and found out she had Belgian and Canadian Champions as her Grand sires and dams. It was then that I decided to breed her to my stud for one more time.
Her prior owners told me that she only had 4 pups in each of her litters and at least one pup died out of each litter. That told me that they provided very poor prenatal care for the dog. After doing a search for prenatal vitamin reviews for dogs (believe me, there were not that many, 18 years ago) I decided on feeding her Eukanuba puppy formula dog food.
The resulting litter was 7 very healthy pups. I kept one and since I had a waiting list the other pups already had homes waiting for them. The mother of the pups was spayed after the pups were weaned and lived with us until she died at a ripe old age of 17.
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