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Here at the Animal Hospital of Statesville, we're committed to helping healthy dogs produce healthy puppies....

Surgical insemination is pretty much what it sounds like. It is surgery....

Treats or a toy are your best friend, or even just praise in general. You want to be teaching them to sit, stay, and lay down....

I got ahead of myself earlier, but the vaginal goes just in the vagina, and that can be anything except frozen semen....

Puppies are more playful than aggressive. It just may come across that way because they're growling, biting, chewing, and wrestling....

It depends on your lifestyle and what type of breed you're looking for—a small breed or a larger, giant breed....

You'll generally know if your dog needs help breeding if you think that one or the other, the male or the female, is accurate on when the breeding ...

Socializing is vital to your puppy's overall lifelong wellbeing....

They make a lot of great toys out there. I always recommend a stuffingless toy if they need something soft....

So the more significant thing for that is going to be if you've tried to breed them before and they didn't get pregnant, or if you're trying to bre...

That varies based on the veterinarian that you're working with....

We recommend having most puppies spayed or neutered right around six months....

Actually, you can inseminate your dog at home if you choose to do vaginal insemination....

Time and exercise, as puppies will just go and go and go. They're Energizer bunnies until they're not....

It's similar to baby-proofing your house....

Peak fertility in a dog is between two and five years old. ...

Oh yes. There are definitely breeds of dogs that need reproductive assistance....

I'm a big fan of crate training....

Many of the smushed-face, brachycephalic breeds need help breeding and whelping and having the puppies, but not all of them....

Puppies love to chew. That's why they make chew toys. We talk a lot about how your hand becomes a chew toy, and that's not ideal....