Can Cats Sense Pregnancy Labor
However they do pick up on new smells and your behavior changes.
Can cats sense pregnancy labor. During pregnancy you experience profound changes in your hormonal levels when your body begins producing more progesterone estrogen and human chorionic gonadotropin hCG hormones. Animals are very smart and if she wants to stay by your side today more then ever just be on the safe side and make sure you got everything ready just in case. For starters while your cat might not be able to sense labor per se theres a chance they do have a pretty good idea that you are carrying a little one in your belly.
We dont have scientific proof that pets sense their owners pregnancies but Ive seen plenty of examples of this in my ten years as an animal trainer. Yes pregnancy can affect a cats behavior. But as you get closer and closer to delivery your body will go through some 11th-hour changes that your dog might notice.
Even spayed females have some wiring in their brain that relates to labor. However it doesnt occur the same way across the board. Cats have an incredible sense of smell and its believed they can pick up on the hormonal changes a woman starts to go through from the beginning of her pregnancy.
Cats hearing is considerably sharper than humans so they would hear the babys heart beat and as mine keep snuggling up to the bump resting their weary heads on the bump I am sure they can. Reasons to Doubt the Idea That Cats Can Sense Pregnancy The biggest reason to doubt that cats to sense pregnancy is the simple fact that there havent been any scientific tests done to prove it. Okay this might sound strange but I think my cat knows something I dont.
Again humans can rarely detect these things but we cats can. Your feline companion doesnt know what pregnancy is but they probably know something is different about you. It can also sense that a female is pregnant even before getting the test results.
Being quite sensitive most cats are able to sense the pheromones produced by your body because of your pregnancy. At this point its little more than an old wives tale albeit one. In the first trimester the production of estrogen and progesterone rises dramatically.