Geri, we often seem to see false pregnancies. Often the first real heat a female has here, she will have a false pregnancy.
All our dogs are working dogs, so we rarely fix the females. I find we see this more in Canada then we did in Australia and it is the spring heat we see it more than the fall or winter one. I wonder if we notice it more than others because we run our dogs with a little less weight than the average pet. The work is just to hard on them if they are fat.
My female had a year off having a litter this spring and she had a false as well. Even got the vet to check her, man I am so careful for the life of me I could not figure out how she could be in pup. Anyways, nothing in there.
They seem to just get over it. I have never done anything special. This bitch even had a bit of rib spring that I will see in her when she gets farther along.......weird. They just seem to go back to normal. The hormones run their course and then that is it.
Not sure if others have the same experience, but I have seen it a lot now. Even my sisters dog had one last spring.
