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Originally Posted by Vaiva

How often did you do the progesteron tests?

We went four times together - I think it was every third day or so... Too long ago for me to remeber exactly, to say the truth. I was beggining to get nervous, as my vet didn't like her to be bleeding for so long and tried to persuade me to give her hormones to end the heat. But I resisted, as I know from other breeders that some wolfdogs just have long heats and they are otherwise healthy... And than the change in behavior was so pronounced that I actually went for the test just to see how high her level was, and it was not so much higher... Last heat the behavior change was also very abrupt - so now I know that it is a safe marker with Frei and will not have to go for tests.. They are quite expensive in Slovakia, so Frei's pregnancy was almost a luxury for me from the financial standpoint.

Originally Posted by michaelundinaeichhorn

...feeding the throat part of cattles as a treat regulary. This part contains the thyreoid gland of the cattle, fed regulary it pushes the dog into an artificial Hyperthyreosis

whew, I didn't know this... I feed Frei with the same part but pork, not for some time now, due to her being fat so she was on low-calories diet, but I was planning to get on feeding raw again... I will have her tested then, just to be sure. I don't think the gland was attached, but I'll check to make sure. Fortunately I prefer the unmixed version of pork throat as I thought there is too much lung tissue in the mixed and Frei tends to have diarrhea from too much lung/liver tissues...