Belly-Labs: a canine pregnancy test

Anicet Mbida 06:54 am, October 26, 2021

The innovation of the day should be of interest to dog owners.

Finally, there is a canine pregnancy test that you can do alone, at home.

There are already ways to find out with blood tests, palpations, or ultrasounds.

But, each time, you have to go through a veterinarian.

Now there is a test that anyone can take at home.

Nothing to do with a woman's pregnancy test.

It's not a urine test.

It is a blood test which will look for the presence of relaxin in the blood.

A hormone secreted only when the bitch is pregnant.

Does that mean you have to take your animal's blood yourself?

No.

The innovation is to have developed a small device that is placed under the dog's lips.

At the push of a button, it will draw a tiny drop of blood which will then be analyzed with a reagent.

The interest of going under the lips?

It is a very insensitive area in animals.

You have certainly seen dogs with bones or sometimes very sharp pieces of wood in the jaw.

So it won't hurt him, it's very easy to do.

You don't have to be a doctor.

And from how long, we can know that the bitch is in gestation?

Not very early, unfortunately.

The famous hormone does not appear until the 3rd week of gestation.

It will therefore be necessary to wait at least 25 days after mating to have the start of a response.

Which is relatively late when we know that a bitch's pregnancy is very short (two months to two and a half months on average).

In any case, this makes it possible to remove any doubts as quickly as possible and to go see her vet earlier, to avoid traumatizing the bitch if you do not want to keep the little ones.

Kit offered by the startup Belly-Labs.

Arrives in the next few weeks for around € 60.