‘Maybe our dog should raise the child too, since he’s clearly more switched on than either of us’: A beloved pit bull’s out-of-character behavior is solved by clever commenter, revealing that the loyal dog knew his human was pregnant before she did

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Laurent Shinar • Writer and Editor
Aug 31, 2025 3:00 PM EDT

Dogs can be so intuitive, it is unbelievable. Stories of doggos detecting earthquakes and tornados hours before they arrive are a dime a dozen, but what happened with this overprotective doggo is a little less commonly talked about. The story goes that a couple brought a pit bull into their lives, they were super careful to train it well and make sure it would be as mild-mannered as any other doggo out there, because at the end of the day it is a doggo too and all it wants is love.

But then one day when another doggo got a little too close to the pit bull's dog momma, the aggression flew out of it, teeth bared and growling from the bottom of its belly. The couple were left distraught, wondering how it could be that they had failed after so much effort. But the truth was something far more wholesome and heartwarming than they could have ever imagined, and would lead to a lifetime of happiness in their home.
 

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    Otis is 3. We adopted him at a year old from the shelter. He's always been very snuggly and my wife has always been "his" human, but recently he's been taking it to another level. Otis is a big black
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    pit bull with docked ears and tail (we adopted him like that!). We know he's a giant ball of blubber and love but other people don't, so we've been very careful to train him not to be "scary", great manners,
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  •  You have got to love the special relationships that certain people manage to have with their pit bulls, or otherwise ‘dangerous’ doggos. They manage to completely change up the stigma and give these dogs that would have otherwise lived a life of anger, a life of love and laughter.

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    no jumping or barking, etc.. Basically this is VERY out of character for him. A week or two ago, my wife got some sort of stomach bug. She was
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    really nauseous and ill for about a week. Otis is very in tune with her emotions (we once got in a fight and she was upset, I swear he was staring daggers at me lol) and during this time didn't even want to leave her to go on walks. We thought it was adorable!
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    Black pit bull mid catching a tennis ball on grass
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    Well now my wife is feeling much better and his attachment hasn't gone away. It seems like he got used to her being home all day for that week and developed separation anxiety. My
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    wife goes to the bathroom, he cries outside the door. She leaves for work, he mopes by the front door until she gets home. And when she gets home, all he wants to do is drape himself all over her. It's
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    getting annoying (well 50% of the time it's annoying, 50% of the time it's cute). Then tonight on their walk through the park another dog ran up to her and Otis (lots of people
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    let their dogs run around off leash even though they're not supposed to). The moment it got near my wife, apparently Otis began to bear his teeth and growl. He has NEVER done this.
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    We're trying to figure out what's going on. If this is the start of an aggression issue we'd like to nip it in the bud. We'll call the vet tomorrow for a checkup just to make sure he isn't hurting anywhere and manifesting it like that.
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    But mostly we're just confused. I don't know if we're overreacting, we may be. Maybe the growling and the attachment were spectate incidents and there was just something about that one dog he really didn't like.
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  • Well, with a doggo like Otis, aggression is doubly scary, there is no two ways about it. Moreover, it must be rather heartbreaking that after you’ve put in all this time and effort as a pawrent to break the stigma around these kinds of dogs, that this behavior comes up for everyone to see.

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    ZZBC Any chance your wife is pregnant?
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    n93s Exactly what I thought. Do a pregnancy check pal.
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    Black and white pit bull smiling sitting in grass field
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    Edit: I have been informed that it's possible my wife is pregnant. She's sleeping now but I'll tell her and she'll take a test tomorrow morning. Maybe our dog should raise the child too, since he's clearly more switched on then either or our dumb ⚫ are.
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    UPDATE: The wifey is pregnant! Otis is still being overprotective but it all makes sense now! Thanks for all the advice and kind words! Sorry for the delayed reply, I didn't check back until just now!
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    jansipper This makes me want to get a dog when I'm trying to get pregnant :)
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    nolantheblue My family dog started doing this with my mother when she was pregnant. The dog knew before she did.
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    baadakku We recently found out my wife is pregnant as well and my dog would NOT
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    leave her alone either. She (my dog) has become my wife's shadow.
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