Studies have shown that when a pregnant animal is petted, the litter is more docile. The petting activates the parasympathetic system, facilitating relaxation, emotional attachment and socialization. Puppies from a petted mother have a greater tolerance to handling than puppies from a mother that is not petted.
There is also an array of other relaxation therapies such as soothing music, aromatherapy, massage, TTouch and other therapies to provide the best pre-natal environment to doggie mothers!
Here you will find a link http://chemse.oxfordjournals.org/content/31/3/207.full to an Oxford Journal examining the effects of prenatal and postnatal effects of exposure to certain stimuli; here food. It is proven that the stimuli has the most long lasting effects on neonatal development if introduced prenatally and postnatal.
It is important to note that we are actively involved in not only early developmental stimuli, starting at 3 days old in our Conquistador K-9 puppies, but also prenatal stimuli. We feel that this is the "recipe" to setting our puppies on the correct and most promising path and are devoted to continuing to expand our understanding of canine behaviors and physiology.
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