Studies on different physical characteristics of mongrel dog semen

Very little experimental work has been done on semen preservation and artificial insemination (AI) in canine in India. Dogs are neither used for production of meat or neither milk nor they are apparently able to boost up the rural economy and for that reason scientist and researcher always ignored works on dogs. Nowadays there is growing interest in dog breeders in breeding with pure and registered breed dogs. Dog breeding is a multimillion-dollar industry worldwide and lack of successful breeding is generally multifactorial. Thus, the dogs are gradually becoming one of the biggest income generating animals for dog lovers and dog breeders. Keeping in views of the above mention facts the present study was done with aim to focus first to study the physical characteristic of mongrel dog semen. In the present study, 3 mongrel dogs were taken for semen collection. Total of 18 ejaculates were collected, 6 from each dog by digital manipulation. The color of semen samples collected from mongrel dogs was observed as milky white to thin milky. The Mean +/- SEM volume, pH, mass motility and sperm concentration were 3.55 +/- 0.31 ml, 6.56 +/- 0.03, 3.75 +/- 0.12, 307 +/- 19.38x10(6) per ml respectively.