Is anyone elses dog acting weird around them?

Re: Is anyone elses dog acting weird around them?

• raspell member

  September 2015

  She knows something is happening. They can sense changes in our bodies even before we can. I know my little dog knew I was pregnant before I did because he randomly got even clingier than usual.
  
  My due date is next week, and for the past couple days he will not let me out of his sight. He has to be in the same room with me, preferably right next to me. He even lays in the bathroom floor when I'm taking showers and baths, when normally he runs and hides because he thinks we're going to give him a bath LOL.
  
  I would say it's possible that labor isn't too far off.
  

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• victoriah1516 member

  September 2015

  One of our dogs has been acting strange the last couple of days. He just sits and barks at us for no apparent reason. We let him out, feed him, make sure his water is filled - and yet the barking continues. When we try to call him to us he will continue to just sit and bark...it's strange. Eventually he settles into his normal routine but these little episodes are fairly consistent.....like he knows something is about to happen.

  As for our other dog....as they say - ignorance is bliss!

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• littlemama1227 member

  September 2015

  There is a big thread on this already, but you are so not alone!  Try searching for it in the side search bar--dogs know everything

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• bmolson1 member

  September 2015

  Absolutely.  This is our second LO and our dogs are acting exactly the same as they did when I was preggers the first time around.  One of our dogs developed a lick granuloma from anxiety last time that landed her in a cone and we just noticed that she's doing it again!  I cannot handle a cone, a two year old and an infant, so I'm trying to be super proactive by giving her lots of attention and spraying her with the bitter apple spray.  Hope it works!

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• jen83mn member

  September 2015

  Yup! My dog started getting super protective of me once I got pregnant (he's a 14-lb bichon) and would get angry if my husband would approach me at times and even bit my aunt when she came near me when I was 8 months pregnant!
  
  We brought the baby home a few weeks ago and while the dog was fine the first night, he was TERRIBLE the next day. He started guarding me and the baby and would charge after my husband whenever he left the room or came near me, and probably would have bit him if he didn't know how to handle it. That night he snapped at me when I went to pick up the baby and then spent the rest of the night in his kennel in the basement where he barked for three hours straight. Not good. We called a dog trainer the next morning and have an appointment in two days ... my parents have been watching the dog since then. It was definitely stressful, as if taking care of a newborn isn't hard enough! And of course I love my dog so much that it just breaks my heart that he's acting that way and I just want to fix it! Hopefully the trainer can help give us the tools we need to help fix the situation! I know our dog just needs to learn his place in the family and that he doesn't need to guard us, but everything we've tried sure hasn't worked!

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