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Okay so the latest on the dogs is this...Mylo is experiencing a false pregnancy. I thought it might be allergies; but I think it is a false pregnancy. She has done this before a couple of times...once when we left her for a week to go on vacation.
On that occasion, when we returned she had made a bed on the couch from which she wouldn't move (she bit both me and my daughter when we tried to pet/move her). In fact, I thought she had HAD puppies and was looking for them...her mammaries were swollen and red, she was fat though she hadn't been eating or drinking....
She did it again about a year or so later, but not anywhere near as extreme.
Well now she's so swelled up she looks like she has mastitis and we'll have to take steps if the swelling doesn't go down pronto. She's incredibly grumpy and has spent the last few days essentially on the couch, attacking the boys; i.e., my son and poor Klaus, who has NO IDEA what the heck is going on or why Mylo randomly attacks him. He keeps trying to find places to hide from her...in teh bathroom, in my closet, in my son's room, poor fella. She actually tore him a little under his eye, I even put medicine on it to keep it from getting infected (it's fine but you know, it might leave a little scar...it's the really delicate tissue right under the eye, scars easily).
I was reading up on things that cause these symptoms, and I do believe it's the old false pregnancy thing...not so much the allergies. I think her allergies can trigger it or make it worse; I'm not sure how but they seem to make everything worse so that makes sense to me. And when she's allergic, it's her belly where it's obvious; it turns bright, bright red.
I'll check her here in a bit and may give her a hot pack for her boobies, poor old girl.
And you know, it might be having a pup around that triggered it this time...I read that one theory is that puppy-less dogs will experience false pregnancy as a safeguard to keep pack puppies fed.
So that's the update on Mylo for those who are curious about her booby issues.
On that occasion, when we returned she had made a bed on the couch from which she wouldn't move (she bit both me and my daughter when we tried to pet/move her). In fact, I thought she had HAD puppies and was looking for them...her mammaries were swollen and red, she was fat though she hadn't been eating or drinking....
She did it again about a year or so later, but not anywhere near as extreme.
Well now she's so swelled up she looks like she has mastitis and we'll have to take steps if the swelling doesn't go down pronto. She's incredibly grumpy and has spent the last few days essentially on the couch, attacking the boys; i.e., my son and poor Klaus, who has NO IDEA what the heck is going on or why Mylo randomly attacks him. He keeps trying to find places to hide from her...in teh bathroom, in my closet, in my son's room, poor fella. She actually tore him a little under his eye, I even put medicine on it to keep it from getting infected (it's fine but you know, it might leave a little scar...it's the really delicate tissue right under the eye, scars easily).
I was reading up on things that cause these symptoms, and I do believe it's the old false pregnancy thing...not so much the allergies. I think her allergies can trigger it or make it worse; I'm not sure how but they seem to make everything worse so that makes sense to me. And when she's allergic, it's her belly where it's obvious; it turns bright, bright red.
I'll check her here in a bit and may give her a hot pack for her boobies, poor old girl.
And you know, it might be having a pup around that triggered it this time...I read that one theory is that puppy-less dogs will experience false pregnancy as a safeguard to keep pack puppies fed.
So that's the update on Mylo for those who are curious about her booby issues.
