Pregnancy Diagnosis
Ultrasound scanning is very useful in determining if your bitch is pregnant or not, and can be carried out from as early as 14 days post-serving. In cases of doubt, we offer a free rescan 1-2 weeks later.
Scanning can be used to estimate the age of the puppies if there is doubt over the serving date, and if they are all healthy (the machine allows us to see and hear the foetal heartbeat).
Understandably, many people wish to know that all vets are instructed by the Royal College not to give an estimate of litter size.
This is because the scan cannot see that all puppies will actually be born healthy or without complications.