Maggie's Symptoms - Help?
 

Okay so lately Maggie has been acting a little strange. I have done a little research and have narrowed it down to a couple of things. First though, I want to tell you her symptoms and let you all tell ME what you think.

1. She has not been eating very much lately.
2. She's been VERY grouchy. She and Franklin have grown to be best buddies and they fight (play) all the time. They were just playing earlier this afternoon and then all of a sudden they got into a huge, gnarly fight. I do understand that this happens every so often with dogs but I thought it was more extreme than their usual spat. She also has either been really cuddly or not at all. Like.. literally ON TOP of us or curled up in a corner on the opposite couch, away from everyone else.
3. She has been humping Franklin during their playtime, something that is completely new.
4. Her diet hasn't changed but her little tummy has gotten bigger.. I can also tell the area around her nipples is swollen.
5. Up until the last week or so, she would just lay on her bed/blankets the way I arranged them for her. I've noticed in the mornings that they are all messed up, meaning she dug and rearranged them a lot throughout the night.

My research tells me 3 things:

1. She could be pregnant. However - she absolutely has not become pregnant while in my care and if she IS pregnant, it would've had to have happened before we got her. It's possible considering we've had her just over a month and the typical female dog pregnancy is around 62 days. However, I highly doubt Vicki would've let that happen.
2. She is going through heat? I'm not sure when her last heat was.. I'll have to ask Vicki.
3. She is having a false pregnancy.

Any ideas?

I agree with your conclusions.
If these weird symptoms just now came up and she can't be pregnany, I'd wonder if she is in heat. Is her vulva area swollen? Any discharge? That's weird that the tummy is bigger though. It could be a false pregnancy I guess. Have you tried asking in the breeders section?

No I haven't.. I will try though! Thanks! :)

Anybody else?

Yikes!
 

It's getting worse! Franklin and Maggie spent all day playing and cuddling and then she finally settled down on my friend's (who's visiting and also has dogs) lap. Well Franklin came in like.. 4 feet of her and LOOKED at her and she started growling like crazy. Lindsey (my friend) had to physically restrain her from attacking Franklin. He didn't do anything to her! He just looked at her. They were playing together not 30 minutes before! I had Andrew pick up Franklin to keep him from provoking her and then we calmed Maggie down. Well 5 minutes later.. same exact thing! We decided it was bed time for Miss Maggie and put her in her crate. We also blocked Franklin off in the living room with us so he wouldn't go bother her.

Help? :(

My dog Holly (who is no longer with us) had a false pregnancy,I couldn't work out why she was being so mean to Willis my other dog, she would go for him all the time, she also started gathering my daughters beanie babies, her bed was full of them, and her nipples got bigger too. This all happened just after she was spay, so it confused me even more. The vets put her on medication to stop it from progressing further. I was happy to see her being playful with willis again.

Update and Pictures
 

Maybe it's because I'm paranoid but I SWEAR her belly gets bigger every day. I took pictures because if she IS pregnant... I need to know ASAP so I can figure out what to do. We also squeezed her nipples and some milk came out. SO.. sometime tell me what's happening!

Wow I have no experience with pregnant dogs, but Roxie was just in heat and was picking on Cali more and fighting with Pixie more and her nipples were hard but not big like Maggie's and her vulva was swollen it doesn't look like Maggie's is but can't really see too well. Hopefully a breeder will respond. When Roxie was in her beginning heat she didn't want me touching her back end even to brush her.