Quote Originally Posted by hogdog View Post
The problem is that my partner's dog has not come into heat yet and she should've by now. We need her bred as soon as possible. Your help would be greatly appreciated.
Why do you "need" to breed her as soon as possible? Do you realize that the biological clock of a bitch's heat isn't dependent on "your schedule." Do you also realize that fiddling with a bitch's hormones can give her pyometra?

The only thing I can help you with is understanding that every bitch is different ... some come in every 4 months, most come in every 6 months ... but it is also within "normal range" for other bitches to come in only once a year+.

For example, my own Amazon bitch just came in heat for the first time yesterday ... and she is 17 months old. I have had many other bitches come in heat their first time at 8-9 months ... so Amazon took twice as long to come in as other bitches I've had in the past ... but this is no reason for me to hit the panic button and initiate monkey-level "hormone therapy" on Amazon, just because she didn't come in heat as fast as I would have liked her to

The best thing you can do with any bitch to keep her "regular" is 1) feed her well, and by "well" I mean a truly good raw diet not shit-kibble; 2) keep her in a healthy, not-too-lean, but nice athletic condition; and 3) keep her near other bitches who have normal heat cycles. In fact, being next to a bitch in heat oftentimes brings about a heat cycle.

If you're looking for a "trick," one other thing I have noticed is rolling a bitch who's due to come in, for no more than :05-:10, brings them in more often as not. Don't know why it is, but maybe there is something about "vying for dominance" that triggers breeding. Other than that, leave her alone and just follow steps 1, 2, and 3 above.

Jack