The New Pregnancy Test: Your Dog
So you missed the sore boobs and the growing tummy? Maybe forgot about that missing period?
If nothing else, your dog getting awfully chummy all of a sudden might clue you in – you’re pregnant.
There’s been no scientific proof that dogs can sniff out a pregnancy – just a ton of circumstantial evidence. Take Peter Huoppi, who just wrote a column over at The Day about his pooch Remy’s transformation to “Velcro dog,” attached very suddenly to his wife, Jen. Three weeks after Remy couldn’t keep the paws off of her, Jen found out she was pregnant. Or the series of mothers talking about this subject last month at Cafe Mom – they’ve got pups with pregnancy-sensing powers, or so they say.
Besides the heightened sense of smell that could be picking up on hormonal changes, dogs can pick up on emotional changes. Most animal trainers say the dogs will sense a pregnancy and the protective side kicks into overdrive.
So if your dog has taken to sticking his snout anywhere YOU are, maybe it’s time to pick up one of those little pee-on-the-stick jobs and see if he’s trying to tell you something.
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Since I got pregnant my dog can’t stand me. Never very cuddly, he actually cowered and slunk away from me for weeks. He still looks suspicious, but at least he’s stop acting as though I turned into a puppy-eating monster. And no, I didn’t get meaner, just WAY lazier when I got pregnant.
we had a ‘velcro cat’ as Kris mentioned. our cat isn’t usually too chummy, but pregnancy brought out the cuddly kitten stage all over again.
A lot of service dogs rely on a dog’s sense of smell to sense oncoming seizures, migranes, hypoglycemic attacks and the like – it wouldn’t surprise me if dogs really did pick up on these things in a way we don’t.
My female cat is the same way. both times I have been pregnant she has been stuck to me like glue. and wanting to cuddle in my lap (she is not a lap cat AT ALL)
My chocolate lab is the reason I figured out I was pregnant. I was clueless and just thought I was PMSing until I realized that she had been practically on top of me and sniffing me constantly for three days. Sure enough the stick turned blue. Several months later, my neighbor came over to tell me she was pregnant and I knew by my dog’s behavior towards her that she was pregnant even before she told me.
I’ve said more than once that I develop “dog nose” when I get pregnant, but I didn’t know dogs could nose out a pregnancy. That’s a new one on me.