How can you tell when your female is in heat?

There are many indications.

Best course of action is getting her spayed before she comes into season.

If you have to ask this, I don't think you are ready to breed, especially with a breed with as many issues as a Daschund...

Considering how many questions we get about breeding dachshunds I'd say don't do it, there are too many out there already.

Also, if you don't even know how to determine when a dog goes into heat then you are obviously not a legitimate breeder and should not be breeding at all. There's more to breeding dogs then just getting a male and female together and waiting for the outcome.

It's in the best interest of your dog to get her spayed. She'll be happier and live longer.

Good luck.

It's in the best interest of your dog to get her spayed. She'll be happier and live longer.

Good luck.

Yep, my mum had her 6 year old mini poodle spayed about a year ago.
She had never been bred from.
When they did the surgery they found out she had pyrometra, which is basically an infection in the uterus. We had no idea as there were no symptoms. If we had have left it any longer she would have died.

I believe the answers were more caring toward the animals who have no one to speak for them or for their welfare, than for the human owners who have tender feelings. I have reported your rude post.

I DID NOT ASK THIS QUESTION FOR A REPLY LIKE THIS!!!!
You are not helpful at all!!!!!
WHAT KIND OF QUESTION IS THIS?
I HAVE SEEN YOUR REPLIES TO OTHER QUESTIONS AND YOU NEED TO FIND ANOTHER HELP DESK!!!!

I am asking you to stop yelling and abusing the people that care about the animals on this site. You do not have to agree with them, but if you read the site rules, you see that capital letters is rude, and it violates the rules of this website. You have been reported by me again for that.

The people here are just saying there are a lot of issues with breeding. And care a lot about animals. And that's that! :)

I couldn't give you an agree Mum45 but yes.
Rude and unnecessary.

We can't just tell people information like that without knowing what their reason behind breeding is.
Only registered breeders should breed dogs.
Registered breeders already know basic information like the OP has asked.

I have a moral obligation not to answer questions of this nature.

A prior post had already been taken off, shazzy that you missed that was rude and yelling. My statement of "you just can't win in this category" was just a little funny dig at you regarding a conversation in another thread about this particular breed. Seems you have caught a lot of grief in this area, is what I meant! I read a lot about this breed because we rescued a full size female from a pound 10 years ago. She is our dear companion and friend, my kids "sister", and now "aunt sweetie" to my little grandson!

Wow there was more :eek:... it really gets to you when someone abuses you on here... I mean, we are only trying to help...

You would be surprised how many posts there have been about breeding dacshunds lately. Especially when there are so many in shelters... good on you for adopting, I love hearing adoption stories :)

No good deed goes unpunished.

This is the nature of the animal forum. If I had a dime for every wannabe breeder that came here asking basic questions like the OP did, I'd be rich!

After a while you just stop sugar coating things, they don't listen anyway so might as well just give them the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

Of course, the truth is hard to swallow sometimes. :)

Well if the OP already red our replies to similar questions then the she should have already known what the answers were going to be.

Nothing has changed between this and the last want-to-be backyard breeder post.

Still millions of dying dogs, still thousands upon thousands of backyard breeders pumping out puppies every day.

That's not an opinion, it's a fact. If she doesn't like it then tough.

My "Sweetie-dog", sweetie-pie, or just plain ole sweetie, just stole our hearts. We had to wait for her to recover from her spay, and they wouldn't let us visit her for the 3 days after she was spayed till we could pick her up... I worried she would be mad that I promised her we would be back, or think I had forgotten her... I told her she was such a sweetie, and the name stuck... Her eyes told us she was such a good dog.. She was a couple years old already, they told us she was an escape artist!! She is full size, so so intelligent, and never EVER pottied in our house from day one. She was terrified of Jeff at first, I think some man hurt her, but loved Trevor (my 15 yr old son)... But since he was gone to school, and Jeff ended up having back surgery, she became Jeff's lap dog... (at a whopping 34 lbs)... She is getting older, arthritis, had to get on a diet, and is Jeff's pretty girl... I swear she thinks she is his girlfriend, sitting straight up in the recliner next to him, lol... Personality like that? You can NOT get that from a puppy mill!! Sorry to run on, but shelter dogs are just the BEST!!

What a lovely story mum45...
Yep, puppy mill dogs don't exactly have the best personalities.. would you if you were locked in a box 24 hours a day :(