Sensing Pregnancy: Pregnancy and Your Pet

If you’re a pet owner, then you may have noticed your cat or dog acting a bit strange since you got pregnant. Perhaps you paid little attention to the changes or maybe you wondered if they could be related to your pregnancy. Well, if you were thinking the latter, then you would be correct!

Pregnant Belly Syndrome?
Pets seem to have an innate intuition when it comes to important events. An animals ability to sense changes in the weather, earthquakes and even volcano eruptions well before humans has long fascinated many. It has also been found that some dogs can detect certain cancers in humans as well as alert a person that they are about to have a seizure or even a heart attack. With such amazing abilities, it should really comes as no surprise that pets can know you’re pregnant before you even think about taking a pregnancy test.

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Pregnancy, Your Dog, and that Sixth Sense
While there is no scientific proof that explains precisely why dogs, or any other animal for that matter, can pick up on pregnancy, there is a lot of anecdotal evidence. Just take a look at what the women in our Reader’s Write section have to say about their pets during pregnancy.

Although your dog may not actually understand that you are pregnant, they do notice any changes in your behavior, posture, routine and emotions. These changes may be so minor that you don’t even notice them yourself. But dogs are very much in tune with such differences and will pick up on them right away.

It has also been suggested that dogs may be so sensitive to pregnancy because of the variations in hormones and pheromones in pregnant women. Dogs have an amazing sense of smell that is vastly superior to humans. In fact, their ability to smell is one million times better than humans; when stretched out, their smelling receivers can cover an area of 130m2. In humans, our smelling receptors will only cover 3m2. This is why, before the pregnancy symptoms kick in, before the pregnancy tests are taken, your dog might start to act a bit…different.

Table of Contents
1. Pets Sense Pregnancy
2. Pregnant? You cat and dog know it too.
 
 
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sapphire1992
hi my name is krystal im only 19 and ive got the rod in my arm and recemtly my kittne wont stop sitting on my stomach or leaving me alone i just wanna now wat to do can anyone give me some info
12 years ago
moshys mom
my dog moshy use to never bark even though she\'s a german shepard but when i got pregnant she started to bark all the time anytime anyone came near the house. before the person could even get to the front porch moshy would be barking, even if she was in the backyard. she\'s already so protective of the baby. its super sweet even though the barking can be kind of annoying. but we now finally have that guard dog we always wanted. i just hope the dog is nice to the baby and that they get along.
13 years ago