How will I know if my dog needs help breeding?

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 should take place and you still haven't been able to achieve a mating or a tie. You can come to our office, and we can do a progesterone test. We can have results on that back in less than an hour. At that point, we can determine if one of the dogs is correct—if the male or the female is right about the timing—and if we should proceed with the breeding. If that is the case, then we can collect semen and do one of the three different kinds of inseminations that we can do. One of them is vaginal insemination, one is transcervical insemination, and the last is surgical insemination. Our choice depends on the quality of the semen, the age of the female, her fertility, and some other issues as well.

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 breed a dog that isn't local. So if you're shipping semen, you'll need some help with that. And progesterone timing, like we already talked about, is recommended for any dog when you're breeding her on her cycle.