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@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ I then noticed that she was only whimpering when around a new toy she had gotten
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We read up on it, consulted our vet, and hid her babies away. We kept her busy and took a vacation and by the time we returned, all of the symptoms had disappeared. This happened about a month after her first heat and lasted about a week. It's relatively common... 87% of bitches show signs of false pregnancy two or more times in their life while intact[^3]. It's believed to be part and important part of a pack raising pups.
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-It's also called Pseudocyesis in humans and one of the most famous cases was that of Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII, which was possibly related to her desperate attempts to prove her fertility even though ole' Henry was likely shooting duds. Henry's first daughter Mary Tudor also had them and believed it was because she did sufficiently not punish heretics ( she burned 280+ at the stake ) in her attempt to reverse the English Reformation[^4].
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+It's also called Pseudocyesis in humans and one of the most famous cases was that of Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII, which was possibly related to her desperate attempts to prove her fertility even though ole' Henry was likely shooting duds. Henry's first daughter Mary Tudor also had them and believed it was because she didn't punish heretics even though she burned hundreds at the stake in her attempt to reverse the English Reformation[^4].
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So now when we tell the story about it, it's that our dog Iris was 'taking one for the team' since the other dogs she'd visited were disabled... one was obese, one had a stroke recently, one has seizures, and one is blind. We think her hormones just went into overdrive thinking 'I gotta help these poor creatures'.
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