Pregnant woman teaches dog to relay her needs to husband
Sheena Shah is a 31-year-old pregnant woman from California who taught her dog how to tell her husband when she needs food, water and pampering. Meet Sapphie — a three-year-old dog who knows how to press interactive buttons based on her mom's needs.
A woman who is about to give birth trained her dog to press buttons to relay to her husband a pregnant mom's wants and needs.
Sheena Shah, 31, of San Diego, California, is pregnant and about to give birth — and has taught the couple's dog some funny tricks.
Shah trained three-year-old Pomeranian Husky mix Sapphire how to communicate with her husband, Sunit, via interactive buttons, according to news service SWNS.
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The physician assistant told SWNS that Sapphire can press buttons to indicate when she — the pregnant wife — is hungry, needs water or wants pampering.
"I think it’s so funny," she said. "It’s like she understands it." (SEE the video at the top of this article.)
A woman taught her dog to "speak." The dog has learned to press buttons to convey her mom's every wish. (SWNS)
Shah found the buttons with the auditory component while browsing for toys and decided to buy them — teaching Sapphire, or Sapphie for short, how to push them with her paws.
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Shah is due to give birth any day and is spending some time in bed resting.
She had Sapphie use the buttons as a funny way of communicating what she needed.
Pomeranian Husky mix Sapphie is three years old — and is a main character in the Shah household. "I think it’s so funny," said Sheena Shah of her dog and how she presses specific "word" buttons. "It’s like she understands it." (SWNS)
When Shah says, "Can you tell Daddy this?" Sapphie will run downstairs and press the corresponding buttons.
Some of the buttons announce the words "Mommy" and "water" — alerting Shah's husband that "Mommy" would like "water" brought to her upstairs.
Shah told SWNS that she has a "good husband."
Shah also told Fox News Digital that she and her husband make the videos for fun — to put smiles on viewers' faces.
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"My husband and I are both health care professionals and the purpose of us making these videos is to make people smile [and] laugh — especially when they are feeling down," she said.
The couple acquired Sapphire in September 2020 and said they include her in everything they do.
Sapphie's mom, Sheena Shah, is 37 weeks pregnant. Shah taught her dog how to press buttons corresponding to different needs or messages. (SWNS)
The dog even walked down the aisle at their wedding.
"She comes on trips, dates and we take her to theaters that allow dogs," Shah said to SWNS.
Although very protective of Sapphie, the couple believes she’s going to be a good big sister when their baby arrives.
"She is the most fun-loving, animated and expressive dog," Shah said to Fox News Digital.
A California woman — in the last few weeks of her pregnancy — taught the couple's dog how to relay what she needs, mostly for fun. (SWNS)
Sapphie has over 700,000 Instagram followers and over 6.3 million followers on TikTok at the time of this report.
Shah has also written a children’s book about Sapphie.
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It's called "Sapphie: The Dog with Feelings."
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Its goal is to encourage children to let their emotions play out, according to Sapphie’s Instagram post.
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