My dachshund had two false pregnancies. Both times she staked out a place in my closet, made her a little bed with some item of my clothes and gathered a few prize toy animals as her puppies. She would stay in there all the time. We would have to go get her to make her go outside for potty and to eat something. First time, we took her to the vet wondering if she was pregnant and maybe they had not spayed her right or something. She had actually gotten swollen teats with a little fluid in them. But the vet reassured us no, it was a false pregnancy. He said he could give her something if the teats became too swollen but then did not. She would eventually stop tending her babies. I am thinking it would usually last about 2 weeks. She did stop doing this after we had other dogs in the house. So, maybe she was lonely and convinced herself she was going to have puppies because of that. |