Most parents may not know that pseudopregnancy can also occur in dogs. It is generally believed that it may be related to prolonged luteal activity. After a female dog goes into heat and ovulates, regardless of whether she is pregnant or not, a corpus luteum will form in her ovaries.

1: When will a female dog experience pseudopregnancy, and if so, how long will it last?

This phenomenon usually appears about two to three months after the female dog goes into estrus, and usually lasts for half a month to a month (some even as long as 100 days). If it does not disappear for a long time, the owner needs to take it to the hospital for examination. one time. During the period of pseudopregnancy, female dogs may have lactation, may have a cold, have a poor appetite, like to drink water, make nests, have no energy, and some may even vomit and urinate excessively.

2: What should we pay attention to when false pregnancy occurs?

If you are not sure whether your dog has been bred, you can go to the hospital for a check-up to determine whether you are pregnant. During the period of estrus, the female dog should try to avoid the male dog. Once the male dog smells the female dog in estrus, he will always follow the female dog in estrus and will easily get lost if he does not listen to the owner's command. If you have a male and a female at home, and you don’t want to breed the female dog, you can buy menstrual pants for the female dog, but there is no guarantee that accidents will not happen.

3: Does pseudopregnancy require treatment? How to deal with it?

During the period of false pregnancy, the owner does not need to feed any medicine, and there is no need to worry too much. This phenomenon will gradually disappear. Most dogs will be neutered so that there will be no false pregnancies in the future and other unnecessary gynecological diseases can be avoided.