SamanthaTopper Webboard User Reg: 03-24-2011
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I've had a few adult dogs that were intact when I got them, but I spayed them shortly after. River is the first female puppy I've raised that's intact and she had her first heat in March.
She also got porky over the winter but has since slimmed down. Even when she was fat her breasts didn't seem to be 'full' but I noticed her nipples and breast tissue enlarged after her heat. Now she's got a very trim waistline and is in decent shape but her boobs flop around and her nips are gigantic.
Is this normal? They don't feel hot or hard/lumpy and they don't bother her at all. They bother me a lot because it looks like she's had a litter and they flop when she runs around. Instead of seeing a nice tuck she's got saggy boobs that make her look like she's still fat. Is it possible for a fat dog to hold some fat in the breast tissue and is this just something she's going to have to burn off? I've never seen this before unless the dog had been bred and River most definitely was not.
Anne Jones Webboard User Reg: 04-29-2004
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If you are sure that she is not pregnant, she may be going through a false pregnancy. Their tits do & don't noticeably fill up during a false pregnancy.
SamanthaTopper Webboard User Reg: 03-24-2011
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Pregnancy and false pregnancy symptoms -
Behavioral changes
Non-pregnant female dog may show symptoms of mothering activity, nesting, and self-nursing
Restlessness
Abdominal distention
Enlargement of mammary glands
Vomiting
Depression
Loss of appetite (anorexia)
Brownish watery fluid or water secretion from the mammary glands
None of these are showing. She's lost weight while on a controlled diet and not lack of interest in food.
I've always thought false pregnancy happens when a dog is bred but it doesn't take. Never the less, she's not pregnant unless she's the virgin mother of the Doggy Messiah.
Duane Hull Webboard User Reg: 09-23-2011
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False pregnancy is a phase of the heat cycle that some dogs (not all) experience, and not every cycle. It has nothing to do with copulation.
If her nipples are distended, chances are they will stay that way.
eta; You say in the OP that you did see her breasts enlarged (mammaries swollen). A dog in false pregnancy can show, some, or any symptoms...not necessarily all of them.
Edited by Duane Hull (05/13/2013 06:58 PM)
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I have nothing of value to add other than to share my chuckle at the fact it's perfectly normal to have two threads named "pudding poop" and "dog boobs" in the recent posts box. The things we dog owners discuss crack me up sometimes
Connie Sutherland Moderator Reg: 07-13-2005
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Quote: Bryan Simms
I have nothing of value to add other than to share my chuckle at the fact it's perfectly normal to have two threads named "pudding poop" and "dog boobs" in the recent posts box. The things we dog owners discuss crack me up sometimes
Not to mention frequent links to close-ups of poop for diagnostic purposes!
Her breast tissue will likely shrink some as she moves away from her heat cycle, but most likely she will never have the shape of a pre-pubescent dog again.
Her breast tissue has been "activated" by her ovaries and will remain on stand-by for every heat cycle, primed and ready for lactation,should you decide to breed her.
This breast enlargement can be avoided if dogs are spayed before the first heat cycle. Not wanting to get into that whole argument (to spay or not and when) but you can see the action that estrogen has on the tissue ---- repeated cycles of stimulation over years are felt to contribute to mammary cancer.
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Quote: Betty Landercasp
This breast enlargement can be avoided if dogs are spayed before the first heat cycle. Not wanting to get into that whole argument (to spay or not and when) but you can see the action that estrogen has on the tissue ---- repeated cycles of stimulation over years are felt to contribute to mammary cancer.
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