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How Long Are Dogs Pregnant? You Gotta Love em'

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How Long Are Dogs Pregnant? This is 'Ava' my Belgian Malinois approximately a month before she gave birth. She became pregnant after a successful mating with the male dog we had selected and time period the breeding was to take place. How Long Are Dogs Pregnant? Some dogs, as with humans, vary on the length of gestation. Complications aside and allowing for differences in age and size and also if it is a first pregnancy as these may all affect the time before birth, the average pregnancy lasts between, 58-68 days. When to get your dog pregnant? Your female will come into heat approximately twice a year, about every 6-8 months so this is not a calendar year, this will continue throughout their lives and unlike humans do not have a menopause and so remain able to get pregnant into old age, although this is not advisable and the heat cycles do often become erratic or less regular they remain fertile. They will be in heat for three weeks with the last two w