Well I had a major panic this morning because Poppy was very dull and lethargic, didn't seem to want to move around and then refused to eat her breakfast. I don't think she's ever refused food before so I was quite worried. Then I looked at her stitches and the whole of her tummy was swollen and her stitches looked really tight
I immediately whisked her to the vet and it turns out she is having an"exagerated false pregnancy". The vet explained that spaying a bitch while she is having a mild false pregnancy can make it much worse. I wasn't very pleased about this because I had asked them to check her before they spayed her because she had been sick that morning and I thought she might be having a false pregnancy. I think they should have told me then that it might get worse and I would have postponed the operation
Anyway the reason she is all swollen is because she is producing milk. She looks like she has udders rather than a tummy and when the vet squeezed her some milk came out
Does anyone know if there's anything I can do that will help her return to normal? She's moping around worse than ever. The vet said that sometimes they prescribe diuretics to help with false pregnancy but I don't really want to start that unless I have to. She's been needing to toilet much more than usual as it is. The vet said she could go on like this for another 2 weeks.
Any advice would really be appreciated
Fiona
PS. Some good news - the baby-gro idea is working a treat. The vet said her stitches are perfect and she seems to quite like wearing her baby-gro. She comes running towards me wagging her tail when she sees i want to put it on her - poor Poppy, she obviously doesn't realise how silly she looks