A puppy box for your new puppy is an absolute necessity to ensure puppies' vigor. Correct and timely use of the puppy box keeps siblings from repeatedly being soaked and chilled with every delivery. A new born puppy left in the whelping box can suffer irreparable or even fatal injury.
During contractions the female dog may possess the urge to tear material or when she rises and turns. Lot of puppies can be stepped on or chewed accidentally during these intense moments.
To prevent this one need to make a puppy the right way. Puppy bedding box should be made from any sturdy material, including a bureau drawer or cardboard carton. The puppy box size depends upon your breed and normal expected litter size. It should be large enough to hold one or two heating pads placed absolutely flat on the bottom.
Larger breeds and those having large litters may require two boxes and heating pads rather than one. Your puppy box should be a minimum of 10” deep to produce a proper environment with heating pad. Place the heating pad flat at the bottom of the box, then get rig of one of the lower box corner through so you can pass the heating pad's cord. Do not make the opening to large so that puppy could slip a head or leg through and getting caught.
Take the heating pad in a medium-weight cotton towel or diaper. Drape a heavier towel over the open box top. Set the thermostat heat on medium from the time your dog goes into labor. You have a simple and safe "incubator." When monitored, the air inside the box will feel warm to your hand, as will the towel wrapping the heating pad. Neither the heating pad nor the air inside the box should ever feel more than slightly warm.
With the environment being controlled you now have a save place to protect the "older" puppies, allowing the you dog to concentrate on her delivery and cleaning of the next littermate. Keep the puppy box directly by the whelping box, or in a comer next to the mother. While she is having her next puppy, she can put her head on the puppy box's edge, keeping an eye on her offspring.
The heating pad you purchase should be square or slightly rectangular, be waterproof, have a protective cover and be free of any strings or ribbons. It must also be of the type that has a variety of temperature control settings: low, medium, high and off, at least. Some have infinite thermostatic controls between low and high. These may be safely set and left on at a medium-low temperature.
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