Hot dog — he was right!
A Texas woman found out she was pregnant because her pet miniature dachshund suddenly began sprawling out across her abdomen every chance he got — which was not his typical behavior, she told The Post.
“I would just lay down to, like, take a break in between my meetings and he just kept walking up and laying not even on my stomach — like, specifically my ovary section,” said Sydney Pritchard Benson, 27, referring to her 1-year-old wiener dog, Freddie.
The pooch’s bizarre behavior started in June, just a couple of weeks after Sydney and her husband of a year and a half, Josh Benson, 28, decided to have a baby.
“I remembered reading something a long time ago that said dogs can tell if you’re pregnant or you’re sick or something. And so I was like, “Wait a minute. There’s no way.’”
She did a pregnancy test and was thrilled with the result.
“I literally ran back into the room and looked at [Freddie] and was like, ‘How? How could you possibly know that?’” she recalled.
“Freddie . . . figured it out before I did,” she said, adding that she previously believed her medical thyroid issues would make getting pregnant difficult.
The 20-inch-long dog was lovingly dubbed “Ferocious Freddie” for normally behaving “like a five-year-old kid that had way too much candy and somehow got caffeine too,” Josh said.
But he always had a soft spot for tots.
“He loves babies. . . . Anytime he’s around babies, he’s just so curious,” Josh said, adding that Freddie is “gentle” and “attentive” when he’s around the Dallas couple’s 8-month-old niece.
The intuitive pooch continues following the new mom-to-be around the house “like a little shadow” in anticipation of the Benson’s baby girl, who’s expected to be born on Feb. 11 and will be named Spencer Jade Benson.
“It’s like [Freddie] has a duty now. Even if we’re cuddling, he still makes a point to like, wedge himself in. He’s like, ‘Excuse me, dad, gotta do my job.’ And he’s just gotta get on her belly one way or the other,” Josh said.
The couple also has a “timid, gentle giant” of a golden doodle named Benji, who, unlike Freddie, seems unfazed by the changes in the household.
The Bensons, who detailed the experience on social media, believe Freddie’s funny behavior is an effort to “protect” the baby and “keep her warm” – and that he’ll be a loving older brother to their first child.
“I really think he’s like the baby protector, like, he’s going to be really gentle with her,” said the mom-to-be.
