She has been very good at keeping herself clean, but I was expecting to have moved past this stage by now. Is it normal to bleed through the whole season? All seems fine (never had a bitch in season before, so I can't say normal!), but it does seem to be dragging on a bit. She is a miniature F1b labradoodle and about 8.5 months old.
She is a bit more clingy than usual, but the only issue we've had is her apparent need to constantly try to hump my leg! I've tried to explain to her that there are many, many reasons that she is rather confused



Our last bitch was done at 6 months (we had an entire male in the house and didn't want to take the risk and - at the time - 6 months was the usual age for the procedure), but having done some reading we decided to wait until Cairo had had her first season. Now that it is here, and she will be so close to a year old in three months, should we wait the extra week or two before the spay - there's so much information about the best time to do it (or not) that I'm at a loss.