Canine behavior experts have recently explained how dogs are endowed with abilities that are impossible for humans. Thanks to them, it is kn...
In the same way, experts have also come to determine how a dog can become capable of realizing that you are pregnant. Dr. Richard Honaker told Romper magazine that thanks to the sharpness of their senses, dogs can pick up changes in a person's body, and a pregnant woman is no exception.
Honaker adds that dogs also tend to be focused and attuned to the emotional and physical states of their owners, they see what to expect, which is why they are often trained to react to an emotional (post-traumatic stress) or physical (epilepsy, blindness, among others).
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A publication by Catherine Zuckerman, a writer for National Geographic magazine, evidenced what has been explained above.
She was pregnant when her Zucco, a Coton de Tulear, started engaging in behaviors she hadn't before, like peeing in her daughter's playroom, and she began to wonder if her dog knew she was pregnant.
What the veterinarian and expert in animal behavior at the University of Pennsylvania Carlo Siracusa say is that you have to rule out health problems in the canine to know that it is not that and that the animal has indeed been able to detect all the hormonal changes in Catherine's body and that Zucco has changed his behavior in response.
Dennis Turner, from the Institute of Applied Ethology and Animal Psychology in Horgen, Switzerland, adds that dogs are very intuitive and their sense of smell is very acute, so they notice changes in the routine of the home and will respond to all those situations.
Changes in the body of pregnant women that dogs are able to detect
Honaker argues that the changes that a dog can detect in a pregnant woman are:
you smell different
This is because when a woman is pregnant her hormone levels fluctuate and that subtly changes the way you smell and dogs are able to notice these subtle differences because their sense of smell is 100,000 times more sensitive than that of a normal person.
You are tired
A pregnant woman can feel exhausted and that will indeed mark a big change in her routine. Animal behaviorist Jennie K. Willis once said for the animal planet channel that dogs are always attentive to routine changes in people because their lives are also affected and respond to that because they know that "something" has changed.
your body is changing
Researchers from the well-known brand of pet products Pedigree stated that dogs are familiar with the behavior of their owners, so when the woman's body begins to change and the "belly" begins to grow and move, they notice it.
If your "two hearts beat"
While you must wait for a sonogram to listen to your baby's heartbeat, your dog has been listening to your baby for a long time. New York vet tech Abel Greenbaum contends that dogs can almost certainly hear your baby in the womb, due to his highly sensitive sense of hearing; What's more, it is possible that after the 28th week of pregnancy you will hear your baby crying inside your belly.
You become more sensitive (emotional)
Every woman who has been pregnant knows that hormones can cause altered moods. Given this, the Pedigree researchers pointed out that dogs react to the moods of their human friends and react in response to those changes.
It has always been believed that the dog is man's best friend, how to question it with everything found about its behavioral responses to pregnancy and diseases of all kinds, so if you have a dog look at its changes in behavior, it may tell you long before an exam if there is a new life in gestation in you and enjoy the company of your faithful friend.
