Phantom pregnancy?

[Patterdale]

My wee dog was in season around 7 weeks ago. The last couple of days she's been very whiny and clingy, and has lost her appetite. She's sleeping in odd places and being generally very clingy and weird. Today her teats were very swollen and she has milk. Rang vet who prescribed something beginning with G, can't remember what but he's dropping it off tomorrow.

Any experiences of phantom pregnancy? Feeling very sorry for her.

 

[MurphysMinder]

Galastop? Hopefully that will help but be warned once they have had one she will probably have one at each season. Phantoms can also increase the chances of pyometra so would keep a close eye on her, and if she was mine I would spay her once she has recovered from this season and phantom.

 

[Patterdale]

Galastop? Hopefully that will help but be warned once they have had one she will probably have one at each season. Phantoms can also increase the chances of pyometra so would keep a close eye on her, and if she was mine I would spay her once she has recovered from this season and phantom.

Yes! Galastop.
Does the galastop increase chances of further phantoms, or the pp itself? She usually only has one season a year and I really wanted another litter from her before spaying her she had pups last year, vet says this may be why she is having this now.
Ill have a chat with him tomorrow. Obviously her welfare is the most important thing, but I will be gutted if I don't get a couple of puppies to keep from her, really want to keep the line going as she's an amazing dog.

I suppose with the symptoms it couldn't really be anything else? I was going to take her for blood tests to see if anything else was amiss but the milk today seemed to confirm it.

 

[PingPongPony]

Galastop itself doesn't increase the chance of a PP recurring, its the fact that she's having a PP now that increases the chance of her having another, and with the symptoms she's having i would say she is having a PP. I have been told by my vet that over time they do develop more of a resistance to Galastop and it gradually stops working, but we are talking about years of doing using it and having PP's. My dog used to have bad PP's, she used to get milk, and then lick her teats to try clean up the milk that poured out, she'd lick too much and lick herself raw. I spayed her as it just wasn't fair on her or me, as she was off her food, whiny, clingy, collecting anything fluffy in the house and piling it into her bed and then individually licking each thing for at least 10 minutes each, it was just sad to see, especially that she would have the PP's 5-6 times a year even though she was only in season twice a year. Now she's spayed, no more PP's, no more galastop, no more antibiotics, trips to vets, collecting fluffy things around the house, whining or problems with her being off her food, she has started putting on a lot more weight than she used to which is a bad thing but that's easy enough to control with food and exercise so its absolute bliss, happy dog and happy me