How can you "dispose" of a dead puppy properly?
How can you "dispose" of a dead puppy properly? General Dog Discussions
We have a toy Australian Shepherd mixed with a....we don't know (the mother was an australian shepherd, and she was impregnated by a stray alley dog, and we don't know what breed it was). It's a pretty small dog that we love and have had for around 7 to 11 years; she was given to us as a puppy by some of our long-distance family.Recently she had been acting really weird: She growled at us way more than normal, she hid away from us and tried to sleep without us bothering her even more than normal, she ate less, she drank tons and tons of water, and she would have an "accident" in the house almost every day, even though she was potty trained to go to the back door and wait for us to let her outside to do her business.We thought she was just scared because we recently did tons of moving and what not to re-organize/re-model our house, and she's usually terrified by change. However, last night at around midnight, she gave birth to a puppy, explaining her weird behavior (I didn't know dogs acted really weird when pregnant, but I guess they do).We did some extensive googling to find out whether it was alive - because it was not moving - and whether she was supposed to have more - which we found out that toy dogs like her only have one.We also found out that since toy dogs are so inbred, the puppies cannot survive unless someone clears their nose and mouths of mucus so they can breathe. Unfortunately, our dog gave birth a few hours before we found out about it, so the puppy at already passed on.We're not sure if our dog cares. Sometimes she act like she really doesn't care about the puppy and will just go wandering around and what not, and sometimes she'll carry the puppy everywhere she goes, and lay it down, and lick it and what not, like she doesn't realize it's dead. We have no idea if she knows it's dead, or if she cares about the puppy at all, or what.FINALLY, my question:How do we know if our dog cares for the puppy? The main question, though, is how do we "dispose" of the dead puppy (this is especially hard if she cares about it and doesn't want us to take it away, which we haven't found out yet)?@Rarri: I have a very, very bad memory. Plus, I was very young (5 at the oldest) when we got her, and I remember almost nothing from my early childhood. I don't remember how long we've had her, but it's at least 7 years. That shouldn't change anything, though, should it?