My Jack Russell ***** is having a phantom pregnancy. What's the best way to get her through it?

Our family dog was pregnant recently, but only had one puppy and sadly the puppy died at a week old, I know it wasn't a phantom pregnancy, but our dog still went through an emotional time. Of course she wasn't litterally crying like us, but at night she would howl and was actually quite upset and not her normal self for a week.

My advice is to just treat your dog like normal, until you see any signs that the dog is distressed or upset. The dog may start nesting (shreding/ripping up her bed) and might start looking for puppies or collect all her toys as if they were babies, or if you lucky everything should go on as normal, and the dog wont even realise it was meant to be pregnant. If you do see signs of the dog acting differently, then maybe you should change the routine a little. Not much, but enough to get the dog out of the environment, take her for a walk and change the scenery for her. Hope this helps.

I don't know that she will necessarily be sad, but just keep an eye on her. False pregnancies are fairly common, so don't worry too much. They only major thing to keep an eye out for is if she starts to produce milk, which she probably will, make sure that they go away after a few weeks. If the breast ever feels hard or super hot she could have mastits which can be treated using regular antibiotics from the vet.

I have to say I have never seen a dog develop mastitis from a false pregnancy.

Generally the advice is to keep your dog busy so she doesn't have time to indulge in nesting behaviour and getting broody. Lots of walks and attention will help. If the symptoms become severe there are hormone treatments your vet can prescribe that may help, but these are seldom necessary.

Bitches which get severe false pregnancies can be the ones that develop problems with their wombs in later life, so I would get her spayed as soon as you can find a time when she is both not in season and isn't having a false pregnancy.

i think of of your flatmate is loopy. Jack Russell terriers are very hyper and this one is a domestic dog, so as that makes it even worse. i'm hoping your flatmate has carried out some examining to earnings how what a domestic dog's desires are. she could be waiting to might choose to be walked at minimum thrice an afternoon, assuming she's already housebroken. On good of walks, it is going to might choose to be carried out with and socialized or it is going to enhance into neurotic and antisocial. He/she could be waiting to might choose to get a crate for it for snoozing and practise purposes. it is going to might choose to be the two supervised or constrained in one room 24/7 or it is going to chew and injury each and each and each little thing you very own. thinking the fact which you would be the only residing house with the dogs, till at last you lay down some floor regulations till now the dogs gets there, you would be the only caught finding after it. have faith me. are no longer getting sucked into this or it is going to enhance into 'YOUR' dogs and that i will tell it extremely is not any longer what you like. Be good.

Don't baby her, don't let her mope around & if she starts making babies out of toys etc - take them away. Sounds tough but if you act sympathetic, she'll think there's really something wrong and be even worse!

Do have her spayed though, you don't want her going through this every season.