Keep checking in with your veterinarian to make sure that your bitch is not developing pyometra. @1000extra helped explain this one to us.
Hey, Aussie vet person! If you are still around, can you help explain this again?
Yikes i wonder if she actually had this.Keep checking in with your veterinarian to make sure that your bitch is not developing pyometra.
Don't panic just yet. It's something that happens in midlife to old age after a lifetime of hormonal abnormalities, especially in bitches that never have puppies. If caught early, then it is profoundly treatable. If you catch it early, it is not really more problematic than a conventional spaying procedure. As a zoophile, you are presumably doing routine oral sex. You will be able to literally TASTE if something is up.There's this bitch in my neighborhood that always had a fake pregnancy after she was in heat, their plan was to fix her but im not sure if they did it already.
Yikes i wonder if she actually had this.
With open pyometra, you might notice a thick, red-brown smelly discharge from her vagina. She is also likely to be unwell and lethargic, off her food, having a fever, may have vomiting and/or diarrhoea. The difference between open and closed pyometra is whether the cervix is shut or not. Obviously, symptoms are worse and more severe in closed pyometra as the pus accumulates in the uterus, making her sicker.
This is not always correct, even when it comes to wolves. When it comes to domestic dogs, everything is superbly dependent on the habitat. And from the socialization of animals. This is a separate, very difficult discussion.In researching the phenomenon I found it is more likely in dogs as the Alphas are the only ones to breed but others may lactate to help feed the pups.
my girl is like that too... when she was around 2 she started having false pregnancies every heat. now she's 6 without any for two heats in a row... fingers crossed she won't have any anymore. your too.My girl frequently had false pregnancies when she was younger and then they just stopped. Been several heats in a row now without happening.
i've read somewhere it's a trait they inherited from wolves. usually only one female in the pack bears pups, but multiple produce milk and can substitute the mother when she eats, hunts or gets sick.I heard some people say that the reason why fake pregnancies exist in many canines is because it's an evolutionary advantageous trait for dogs to develop motherly instincts for puppies which are not her own but still in the same pack.