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Psychic False Pregnancy
Despite being able to see some things quite clearly psychically, there are times I feel it is very important to use both sides of the brain in making decisions or finding answers. One of those times happened yesterday with my six and a half year old Newfoundland dog, India. She is an unspayed female and at about the two month mark since having her heat.
India started her signs of having a false pregnancy and with the time frame she is due to deliver the ghostly pups by Friday the 13th of this week. She is not the alpha bitch of this household (insert your own humor here). As a subordinate it is not surprising that she goes through such false pregnancies. In the wild it is the alpha female who has the pups and the other females go through false pregnancies and have milk to nurse the litter if needed or can take over if something happens to the alpha. How beautifully nature provides! So India goes through her false pregnancies and deliveries.
This time it has escalated though! Her pawing the carpet and digging holes outside is accompanied by howling with head up to the sky and whining and clinging to me. She literally has been spooning with me at night. I have to say with the cold weather she is saving a bundle on my heating bill by having her as a blanket! But despite seeing in my mind's eye a faux singleton pup in her uterus, and despite seeing my guide throwing out CBC results in a waste paper basket because there was nothing there to worry about, I was concerned because there is an overlap of symptoms with something very serious - Pyometra (a life threatening infection of the uterus). Her overlap symptoms included excessive water drinking, panting, not eating. Her body temp was normal but with a big dog like this I won't take a chance. I decided to take her in for a quick check.
The vet I use for emergencies is somewhat local - Dr. Christian. She is just lovely! Always cheery and happy to see India. Though she is western in her methods she is very open to my ways and so respectful. I can work well with someone like her because of that mutual respect. She checked India over and felt that she was within that first stage of the false pregnancy - the week before delivery. The next stage would go for about three weeks then all should calm down. She did a swab of the vulva and no infection was found and we decided to hold off doing a CBC since India did eat and did not vomit and she really just looked like a massive false pregnancy case.
I realized while standing there that we had a double whammy going on at that moment. It was not just a full moon but a full moon in kidney season by Chinese Five Element. The moon can effect dogs with kidney, thyroid and adrenal issues or the sex organs. We had those two issues plus I have been noticing excessive chem trails in the sky as of late. No doubt that that could be effecting her hormone levels as well.
So I loaded my big black love bug back into the car and had just enough time to make it over to the lake to watch the sun set and to photograph it. I felt a sense of relief. Even though I do trust what I am shown, I want the validation that I am not sugar coating anything because it is my dog and I love her so much. Sometimes we don't want to see things as they really are. That and when it comes to health issues nothing beats a lovely diagnosis with test results that are valid and accurate. If the testing is safe to do and not real money grabbers I will opt every time to have that sense of peace.
As an animal communicator and pet psychic I feel that there is a sense of ethics that needs to be followed regarding prescribing and diagnosis. I do neither! I have been goaded many times by would be clients who insist that I diagnose their pets. I will point you in the right direction and give the feelings and how it manifests physically but I am not an x-ray machine nor is there a DVM after my name. Having an animal looked at by a professional eye can be a life saver and is another aspect of getting the whole picture even for someone like me who sees the inside story without the x-ray machine. Vets see myriad animals every day and have an extreme reference in their experience as to what is happening in an individual case. Though one may choose to do a different course of action than a vet suggests, the diagnostic tools can be priceless.
My vet felt I probably had more rabbits in my hat than she to help India have some peace through her faux pregnancy. I have been putting rescue remedy on India's earflaps and spraying a bit into her mouth and also using a bit of lavender essential oil to massage her neck and head so that she inhales the fragrance of it. I also used a wee bit of rose essential oil to keep her spiritually high and equal to me since we reflect each other in so many ways.
India started her signs of having a false pregnancy and with the time frame she is due to deliver the ghostly pups by Friday the 13th of this week. She is not the alpha bitch of this household (insert your own humor here). As a subordinate it is not surprising that she goes through such false pregnancies. In the wild it is the alpha female who has the pups and the other females go through false pregnancies and have milk to nurse the litter if needed or can take over if something happens to the alpha. How beautifully nature provides! So India goes through her false pregnancies and deliveries.
This time it has escalated though! Her pawing the carpet and digging holes outside is accompanied by howling with head up to the sky and whining and clinging to me. She literally has been spooning with me at night. I have to say with the cold weather she is saving a bundle on my heating bill by having her as a blanket! But despite seeing in my mind's eye a faux singleton pup in her uterus, and despite seeing my guide throwing out CBC results in a waste paper basket because there was nothing there to worry about, I was concerned because there is an overlap of symptoms with something very serious - Pyometra (a life threatening infection of the uterus). Her overlap symptoms included excessive water drinking, panting, not eating. Her body temp was normal but with a big dog like this I won't take a chance. I decided to take her in for a quick check.
The vet I use for emergencies is somewhat local - Dr. Christian. She is just lovely! Always cheery and happy to see India. Though she is western in her methods she is very open to my ways and so respectful. I can work well with someone like her because of that mutual respect. She checked India over and felt that she was within that first stage of the false pregnancy - the week before delivery. The next stage would go for about three weeks then all should calm down. She did a swab of the vulva and no infection was found and we decided to hold off doing a CBC since India did eat and did not vomit and she really just looked like a massive false pregnancy case.
I realized while standing there that we had a double whammy going on at that moment. It was not just a full moon but a full moon in kidney season by Chinese Five Element. The moon can effect dogs with kidney, thyroid and adrenal issues or the sex organs. We had those two issues plus I have been noticing excessive chem trails in the sky as of late. No doubt that that could be effecting her hormone levels as well.
So I loaded my big black love bug back into the car and had just enough time to make it over to the lake to watch the sun set and to photograph it. I felt a sense of relief. Even though I do trust what I am shown, I want the validation that I am not sugar coating anything because it is my dog and I love her so much. Sometimes we don't want to see things as they really are. That and when it comes to health issues nothing beats a lovely diagnosis with test results that are valid and accurate. If the testing is safe to do and not real money grabbers I will opt every time to have that sense of peace.
As an animal communicator and pet psychic I feel that there is a sense of ethics that needs to be followed regarding prescribing and diagnosis. I do neither! I have been goaded many times by would be clients who insist that I diagnose their pets. I will point you in the right direction and give the feelings and how it manifests physically but I am not an x-ray machine nor is there a DVM after my name. Having an animal looked at by a professional eye can be a life saver and is another aspect of getting the whole picture even for someone like me who sees the inside story without the x-ray machine. Vets see myriad animals every day and have an extreme reference in their experience as to what is happening in an individual case. Though one may choose to do a different course of action than a vet suggests, the diagnostic tools can be priceless.
My vet felt I probably had more rabbits in my hat than she to help India have some peace through her faux pregnancy. I have been putting rescue remedy on India's earflaps and spraying a bit into her mouth and also using a bit of lavender essential oil to massage her neck and head so that she inhales the fragrance of it. I also used a wee bit of rose essential oil to keep her spiritually high and equal to me since we reflect each other in so many ways.
