Starting Taking Temps
Sunday, September 27, 2015 at 9:33AM 
Started taking temps after making room for a couch this morning. What does one have to do with the other? Only a process to get ready. Our goal is to get this room ready for whelping today or tomorrow. I need to clean my desk off so I can take a tropical in that will go on my desk.
I am taking Adele's temps 2 ways. One is a non invasive infrared method and the other is rectal. I will take it both methods for 2 days to see if the differences in readings stay consistent. Then if it does I will opt for the non invasive kind. Adele will thank me. If readings are all over the place, I will have to stick with rectally and I wasted my $$ but it also takes a reading of the air temperature so that will be useful around the whelping box.
Here is the start:
09/27/2015 931am
Rectally 99.7
Infrared 100.4
That means .7 difference.
If this stays consistent instead of 98.1, 98.2 or 98.3 that I look for in a drop rectally, I will be looking for 98.8, 99.0, 99.1. I think to feel secure, if this is the method I use when I see a drop I will use the rectal way then. We shall see. It's new to me so I am hoping it works.
A temperature of 101 to 102.5 degrees Fahrenheit (38.3 to 39.2 degrees Celsius) is typical for a dog. In the last trimester of pregnancy the pregnant gal will have a temperature around 100. This is contributed to hormone levels. The morning is usually lower that the afternoon.
You also look for other signs such as digging, nesting, pupils dilated. They also can be agitated and panting. Some of these signs can happen more than 24 hours. I have been known to stay up with a gal the entire day before then have pups. then the night before Nathan goes to the guestroomn with dogs and I am sleeping with a light on constantly checking. I have had silent births and had a puppy halfway out but we always manage to get downstairs to the whelping box. Maybe this year I will just sleep on the couch.
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Looking forward to seeing how many pups Adele will have as her first litter.