We’ve built a lot of whelping boxes in our day. Most of the whelping boxes were huge, 4′ x 4′ x 4′ ft monsters and while, very nice, some with hinged, drop-down fronts, seats, et…

Here are interesting DIY Whelping box plans with pictures you can build with little experience. It involves comprehensive building processes and dimensions.

There are hundreds of whelping boxes out there. I've personally used a couple different ones. The best whelping box we found is made by Jonart.

A whelping box (sometimes called a nesting box or whelping pen) is a container designed to keep puppies safe and warm during (and soon after) birth. It is crucial for the health of your puppies, however, to keep the whelping box clean and...

Shaz recently helped her dog birth a new litter and recommends the storage cases from IKEA for a cost-effective and manageable whelping box for smaller dog breeds.

Whenever we do this document-a-litter thing on LabTails, I try to include some information about puppies or whelping or breeder-responsibility or the "whys" of some of the things you see here. Today is one of those posts (I mark the informational posts in the title, so if you find them boring you can skip them). This is our second whelping box. We burned the first one after our "P" word experience -- didn't want to risk any lingering virus in the environment. And while the first one (DH's…

Whelping Box/Area Set up

Whenever we do this document-a-litter thing on LabTails, I try to include some information about puppies or whelping or breeder-responsibili...