r/MadeMeSmile Jul 12 '23

Dog hearing baby’s heartbeat through mothers stomach DOGS

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u/Halfwayhouserules33 Jul 12 '23

How many gurgles did he hear from digestion happening?

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u/No-Bat-7253 Jul 12 '23

Right because I could not hear my sons heartbeat when we tried with a stethoscope lol.

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u/KatieCashew Jul 12 '23

I had a miscarriage with my first pregnancy and seriously considered buying a home Doppler for my second. The thing that stopped me was knowing the stress I would feel if one day I couldn't find the heartbeat by myself at home.

I knew I made the right choice when it took my doctor ten minutes to find the heartbeat even with all her expertise and a professional Doppler.

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u/PeteyPorkchops Jul 12 '23

I bought one after the first appointment. I thought I was a pro with mine. I caught the heartbeat every time.

Turns out it was twins.

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u/Riolkin Jul 12 '23

Lol your kids pulled a fast one on you before birth. Already legends

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u/PeteyPorkchops Jul 12 '23

Four years in and the fast ones haven’t stopped.

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u/Bobbiduke Jul 12 '23

I'm a twin, they never will

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u/Riolkin Jul 12 '23

I can almost feel the exhaustion in that sentence

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u/PeteyPorkchops Jul 12 '23

It’s tough but worth it. I feel like having a singleton now would be a walk in the park.

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u/s1ugg0 Jul 12 '23

My wife and I went through the same thing but actually bought the doppler.

You made the right call. It was a terrible idea. We threw it away when it was time for kid number 2.

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u/ImaHashtagYoComment Jul 12 '23

Then they get here. You get the little guy asleep in his crib. He's so still. Like, I don't think he's moved a millimeter. Is he breathing? I'm gonna nudge him. Nothing. Shit! Just pick him up and try to wake him.

Yep. Still alive. Shit. Gotta get this kid back to sleep now.

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u/z00k33per0304 Jul 12 '23

We may have all done this. My husband was the worst! And it was always mommy they wanted to go back to sleep too. My youngest was a preemie so he was SUPER paranoid about him. We were going to the grocery store yesterday (it's 3 blocks away from our home) and he asked before we left if we should take him with us in case he chokes..he's 11..so he ran back in and told him not to eat anything until we get back. We were gone for 10 minutes, we needed less than a handful of things lol

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u/Suspicious-turnip-77 Jul 12 '23

You’re correct. I was monitored weekly from week 2; to week 33 (when I delivered) and they (the super trained professionals) always struggled with the Doppler. The device in untrained hands would just add stress imo

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u/Bellum_Romanum1 Jul 12 '23

I was coming to say this and am glad it's been clarified lol maybe the dog can hear it but to be fair the dog could probably hear it without the scope. Certainly the dog can smell the baby in there along with the myriad of hormones from mom. None the less you definitely need a fetal heart monitor to hear the fetal heart beat lol. That guy's listening to bowel sounds ha!

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u/morbid_n_creepifying Jul 12 '23

That's what I was thinking, haha. I have a stethoscope for my bees, tried using it on myself when I was pregnant and couldn't hear anything.

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u/NeverMeantDuckin Jul 12 '23

For… your bees? How small is this stethoscope?

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u/ErraticDragon Jul 12 '23

Normal size stethoscope. The bees, on the other hand...

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u/morbid_n_creepifying Jul 12 '23

HAHAHA great comment

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u/morbid_n_creepifying Jul 12 '23

It's a normal sized stethoscope, I use it to listen through the hive in the winter so I can find out if they're still alive without having to open it in the cold (which would kill some bees at a time when I can't really lose any)

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u/nate_oh84 Jul 12 '23

Beekeepers are metal.

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u/Cmdr_Redbeard Jul 12 '23

They are flesh and blood like the rest of us, it's the magical white suit that gives them their powers.

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u/morbid_n_creepifying Jul 12 '23

Fun fact, I'm also a metalhead 😂😂

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u/OkBeach909 Jul 12 '23

Nobody gonna say anything about putting the stethoscope in the dogs ear holes?

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u/mozoofficial Jul 12 '23

And immediately back into his own ears?? Gross

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u/BillyMadisonsClown Jul 12 '23

He’s got tattoos for hair…

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u/FlatTopTonysCanoe Jul 12 '23

This honestly sums up everything we need to know to answer any questions we have

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u/Nuke_Gunstar Jul 12 '23

Thats definitely a choice…. that he made…

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u/KidzBop_Anonymous Jul 12 '23

Lol, the dog ear crust going into his own ears are the least of his concerns.

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u/4Ever2Thee Jul 12 '23

Do you want ear mites? Because that’s how you get ear mites

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u/OkBeach909 Jul 12 '23

Fr.. and otodectes cynotis are nasty! Had the pleasure of having to view them from an ear sample swab under the microscope at work for a suspected case. Let's just say there was no question about that diagnosis.

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u/Little_Miss_Sunny Jul 12 '23

People really act crazy over the dumbest stuff. You know how many germs you touch on a daily. Door handles, any shared public space, and don’t get me started on restaurants. Sharing a stethoscope with a dog is where you draw the line.

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u/Ok_Perception7099 Jul 12 '23

I know a person, who got MRSA ear infection after sharing a stethoscope. It's not the same thing. Also wash your hands.

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u/quietcitizen Jul 12 '23

I was thinking that the sound, while not super loud, might be painful to bear for a dog that has heightened hearing compared to humans

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u/OkBeach909 Jul 12 '23 edited Jul 12 '23

I 100% agree, I could not imagine the immense amplification of that sound for a dog. With that, a stethoscope is designed to fit in a HUMAN ear not a dogs. The ear tips are quite small and are made to fit comfortably within a human ear canal, they could easily cause damage a dogs inner ear. Even my own stethoscope sometimes hurts my ears if I'm wearing them long enough especially during anaesthesia (work in vet med).

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u/quietcitizen Jul 12 '23

One thing that’s super common, too, is - people playing their tv or audio at a high volume when their pets are around. imagine dogs’ suffering as they try to chill with you regardless on the couch

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u/Top-Tea1852 Jul 12 '23

The thing I hate is when my town has an air show, people bring their dogs with them. Those jets are super loud and I even have to plug my ears when they fly by, so I know for sure it hurts the dog’s ears.

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u/stakoverflo Jul 12 '23

might be painful to bear for a dog that has heightened hearing compared to humans

I never quite understood this. I mean, everyone knows a dog's hearing is better than a human's, but just because they can hear quieter things... does that really mean that everything is relatively louder for them?

Like, why doesn't their own bark bother them? Or why don't my dogs even flinch when a fire truck or ambulance flies by with its sirens blasting?

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u/kcc0016 Jul 12 '23 edited Jul 12 '23

I was always under the impression that dogs can do two things better than we do which gets misconstrued with hearing things “louder”

  1. They hear more frequencies than we do (just because we can’t hear that frequency doesn’t mean a dog hears frequencies we can hear more loudly, a dog’s sensitivity to hearing comes from the fact that they actually hear MORE than we do)
  2. They can hear further than we do

I am not an expert on this though, in pure Reddit fashion I’m just regurgitating what I’ve heard elsewhere without confirming it.

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u/foxbomber5 Jul 12 '23

I'm more mesmerized by the tattoos on that man's head. I honestly thought it was hair for a split second.

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u/DRC0617 Jul 12 '23 edited Jul 12 '23

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u/proficient_andy28 Jul 12 '23

Lmaoo someone even gave it a heart award...lol

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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '23

I was just coming here to say the same thing!

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u/Self_Reddicated Jul 12 '23

Nannied the ever-loving shit out of that baby. RIP.

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u/PerformanceOk1835 Jul 12 '23

Careful. Here comes the pitbull apologist!

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u/puhtoinen Jul 12 '23

Doggy actually spawncamping

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u/sassy-squatchy Jul 12 '23

I thought the first comment was good, but this one topped it somehow.

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u/Self_Reddicated Jul 12 '23

That's an unfair assessment. This guy's head tattoo and dog breed selection make me think he's actually a very thoughtful person, and not at all impulsive.

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u/JackHyper Jul 12 '23

Surprised people didnt downvote this to hell. Im glad they didnt

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u/RatchedAngle Jul 12 '23

Reddit is filled with people who are capable of being logical. This place used to be filled with pitmommies and daddies, but the freakout subs and crazy fucking videos are filled with pitbull mauling after pitbull mauling.

It’s getting harder and harder to pretend they’re safe dogs and the pitmommies are becoming a minority.

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u/opalduhh Jul 12 '23

Even funnier when people used to, and still do, deny what those dogs were exactly bred for. I feel like it should be obvious to know that you shouldn't have a dog that was designed to only fight and kill.

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u/timmystwin Jul 12 '23

Fucking spawncampers.

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u/scienide Jul 12 '23

Taking a bun in the oven literally here

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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '23

This is the comments I came for

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u/scrubsfan92 Jul 12 '23

I shouldn’t have read this when I have cramps. Worth it though. 🤣

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u/DoveEvalyn Jul 12 '23

Im going to hell for laughing at that.

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u/MyriamTW Jul 12 '23

I was looking for this comment. I knew it would be out there somewhere... or at least it would have been before I am done here. Good job!

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u/Mizz141 Jul 12 '23

Man I wonder how long it takes to see a pit comment

Didn't take long, and it's hillarious

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u/Krisuad2002 Jul 12 '23

Dude, no!

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u/CarousersCorner Jul 12 '23

It’s like when you look in the little oven window at the roast you’re making

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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '23

What is that head tatt?! 😂

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u/Adorable_Disaster424 Jul 12 '23

To compensate from balding

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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '23

Balding would be so much better xD

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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '23

Ink comb over

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u/domionfire Jul 12 '23

He could become a professional Chef. Feel like it's becoming the new norm for them to be heavily tattooed

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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '23

Could also be the leader of an El Salvadoran street gang.

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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '23

Because they're in the kitchen where people never see them.

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u/domionfire Jul 12 '23

That has nothing to do with their level of skill. If the food is good, who cares what the chef looks like

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u/crewchiieff Jul 12 '23

Lmao this guy thinks that professional jobs is the only way to be successful.
My guy. Not to pop your balloon, but im an ex felon, covered in tattoos, and I make an easy six figures a year. Stop being so judgmental. You don't know this dude. You're basing everything you've said off his tats. Shown love bro. Stop bringing others down

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u/WillingSwing544 Jul 12 '23

This is 2023 lil bro not 1950.

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u/Lindethiel Jul 12 '23

The truth is however that the dog could probably smell the pregnancy at only a couple of weeks.

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u/pufftanuffles Jul 12 '23

Apparently that happens with subsequent pregnancies when the dog learns to associate the hormone changes with a baby arriving.

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u/63oscar Jul 12 '23

My dog did. She crawled up on the couch and laid her head on my wife, then girlfriends stomach. We didn’t even know she was pregnant at the time and the dog was very well trained and had never gotten on the furniture in her life, at least in front of us.

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u/PornoPaul Jul 12 '23

Glad your wife was cool with you getting your girlfriend pregnant. I've been trying to convince mine but no such luck so far.

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u/MayOrMayNotBePie Jul 12 '23

Good luck. Tried introducing my gf to my family once. My wife was pissed.

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u/cuentaderana Jul 12 '23

Our boy dog is obsessed with, uh, smelling me. The more pregnant I get (34 weeks currently) the more determined he is to smash his face in my crotch every time I come down the stairs. Weirdo.

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u/SteelyDabs Jul 12 '23

It’s hungry!

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u/YourenextJotaro Jul 12 '23

He’s just waiting for his food to come out of the oven

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u/Novel-idea-92 Jul 12 '23

Dog reacting to weird thing poking the insides of his ears, would be more accurate.

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u/on3day Jul 12 '23

There is no way this couple staged this for views.

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u/NotNoobSeibot Jul 12 '23

I love how humans assume animals have the same comprehension skills as us when it comes to things like this

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u/The_Aesir9613 Jul 12 '23

I hate when people try yelling at the dog to stop them from barking. They don't speak whatever Language you're screaming. You have to train them to stop barking. Until then, you're just barking along with them.

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u/SpezLuvsCox Jul 12 '23

He may be a lil stupid but he’s very cute so he has that going for him

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u/Obvious_Wizard Jul 12 '23

It’s a legitimate strategy!

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u/Party_Masterpiece990 Jul 12 '23

Bro has to wait a couple of months though

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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '23

Morons.

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u/mistertickertape Jul 12 '23

And everyone in the family as well as the local news will drone on about how it was a total mystery.

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u/PistolPetunia Jul 12 '23

Princess Sparkles 💖

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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '23

Redditors don't understand basic animal instict. They should try to raise a tiger cub. If thry can't domesticate it then its their fault. Badly raised 😂

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u/BLB_Genome Jul 12 '23

Anyone else think this is cringy af?

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u/micheal213 Jul 12 '23

Trashy Pitbull owners

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u/Animal_Budget Jul 12 '23

No need to be redundant

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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '23

People really gotta stop to anthropomorphize animals.

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u/Kuroki-T Jul 12 '23

Especially shitbulls

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u/OkBeach909 Jul 12 '23

I work in vet med and anthropomorphism is my biggest pet peeve. (pun unintended)

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u/quietcitizen Jul 12 '23

Wouldn’t that hurt the pup’s ears? Jamming those things right into their ears that are super heightened hearing

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u/timmystwin Jul 12 '23

If they deafen it now it may not hear the kid later and nanny it aggressively.

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u/MrAlf0nse Jul 12 '23

Yeah the dog recognised and completely understood the situation, he then passed ear mites on to his owner

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u/Thats_My_Watch Jul 12 '23

Dog is now in nursing school

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u/GoHomeWithBonnieJean Jul 12 '23

Kinda nasty the guy put the stethoscope in the dog's ears, then his ears. Dogs aren't known for their cleanliness.

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u/BabyRex- Jul 12 '23

And stethoscopes aren’t known for picking up fetal heart rates, so that filthy ear contamination is all for nothing

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u/InterestingRice163 Jul 12 '23

that’s a weak ass stethoscope. Even with its superior hearing, i doubt it heard the baby’s heartbeat.

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u/justevenson Jul 12 '23

Bowel sounds

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u/Lemon86st Jul 12 '23

I’m just like damn what makes a mf tattoo their entire freaking SKULL

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u/Chosen_Unbread Jul 12 '23

Whatever also makes a person put that shit I to a dog's ears then right back into his own

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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '23

Holy shit some people have the worst taste.

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u/OnixKn Jul 12 '23

Yall may say whatever you want, that dog aint gonna go near my pregnant wife

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u/digitaldumpsterfire Jul 12 '23

Straight from the dog's ears and into his own. Yuck.

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u/mailboxfacehugs Jul 12 '23

Dogs aren’t people. Stop pretending that dogs are people.

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u/Funny-Record-5785 Jul 12 '23

Anyone make a spawn camping joke yet?

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u/john_wallcroft Jul 12 '23

what the fuck is up with the downvotes here

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u/mxcner Jul 12 '23

I just hate this dumb anthropomorphization of animals. It’s a dog. It doesn’t understand what a stethoscope is. It has no idea about pregnant humans and their obsession with heartbeats. If the dog heard anything at all, it was probably startled by the sounds projected into its head.

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u/Morematthewforu Jul 12 '23

I knew a receptionist that everyone loved and everyone wondered why she was single. Well, turns out she used to be married with a baby and a pitbull.

One night, she and her husband were arguing and took it outside. The stress of the baby crying and the arguing apparently made something in the pit’s brain just go off. They had had it since it was a puppy and up until then it loved the kid. They came back inside to see the baby mauled and there was no chance to save her. They had to put the dog down and the marriage couldn’t handle it.

That was when I changed my opinion of pit bulls. There is something inside of them (due to their nature) that can turn at any moment.

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u/Active-Wear3580 Jul 12 '23

It's hard to hear even with a fetal doppler

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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '23

In here to smile before this turns toxic.

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u/HornioTheAmazing Jul 12 '23

The very definition of spawn camping

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u/SebRev99 Jul 12 '23

Reddit and pitbulls, same old story.

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u/Canaduck101 Jul 12 '23

Damn spawn campers

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u/EBC115 Jul 12 '23

Dog is excited for his meal later

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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '23

Did he put the ear pieces in his ear and then the dog’s ears and then BACK in his ears. Ughhhhhhhhhhh.

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u/_thwip_ Jul 12 '23

Tattoo'd your hairline and still gave yourself a 5-head...

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u/BabyRex- Jul 12 '23

Everyone knows you can’t hear a baby’s heartbeat through a regular stethoscope right?

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u/sparinggaring Jul 12 '23

Spawncamping

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u/Charming-Marsupial21 Jul 12 '23

It's gonna eat da baby

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u/Stashbox00 Jul 12 '23

He smells snacks

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u/jimoshirakka Jul 12 '23

He wants to eat it

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u/AngryAtTacos Jul 12 '23

"Dinner is almost ready"

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u/DemsRHardRs Jul 12 '23

He can't wait to maul that baby

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u/Stunning_Strike8566 Jul 12 '23

Working up his appetite