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* ''ComicBook/{{Allergic}}'' Maggie's [[SecretPetPlot hidden pet mouse Pipsqueak]] gives birth to a surprise litter of mice. She and Claire try to hide the mice and plan to split them between each other--until her younger twin brothers blurt out the secret to their grandmother.

* ''Annie and the Wild Animals'' starts off with Annie's pet cat, Taffy, acting unlike a usual pet cat and then disappearing into the woods, causing Annie attempting to attract and tame a CoolPet from the woods. [[FramingDevice The story literally illustrated in the frames of each page]] reveal that while this is going on, Taffy gives birth to a litter of 3 kittens and eventually comes back to Annie with them.

->'''Tuffnut:''' This is the worst thing I've ever seen. It's terrible. The horror! [''Reveals Chicken cuddling up with a rooster.''] Oh look! There they are, doing all the things we used to do together. [''The rooster starts preening Chicken.'']\\
'''Astrid:''' Um… you preened Chicken's feathers?\\
'''Tuffnut:''' What does he give you that I can't, huh? Huh? [''A clutch of baby chicks walks onscreen.'']\\

-->-- ''WesternAnimation/DragonsRidersOfBerk'', "[[Recap/DragonsRidersOfBerkS7E12SearchingForOswaldAndChicken Searching For Oswald... and Chicken]]"

This is somewhat TruthInTelevision; compared to humans, other mammals aren't always as visible with the signs of pregnancy, and the next generation really can appear by surprise, the animal's owner having been none the wiser. And that's only counting the ''female's'' owner-- the male pet, obviously, would show ''no'' signs that he knocked up another animal.

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* In the ''[[WesternAnimation/DragonsRidersOfBerk Dreamworks Dragons]]'' episode "[[Recap/DragonsRidersOfBerkS7E12SearchingForOswaldAndChicken Searching For Oswald... and Chicken]]", the B-plot involves Tuffnut's pet chicken has going missing and has recruited everyone (except for Hiccup and Fishlegs, who is helping Dagur in the main plot of the episode) to help him. By the end of the episode, it is revealed that she was actually with [[spoiler:a fetching young rooster and their clutch of newborn chicks]].

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[[TropeyTheWonderDog Tropey's]] [[TropeyComeHome gone missing!!!]] Oh dear Lord, what am I gonna do? I mean, he's been acting so strangely. He's been wanting to get out of the house more, he won't eat, he won't sleep, he doesn't want me to pet him, I'm at a complete loss!

This is somewhat TruthInTelevision; compared to Humans, other mammals aren't always as visible with the signs of pregnancy, and the next generation really can appear by surprise, the animal's owner having been none the wiser.

See YourTomcatIsPregnant if they incorrectly thought the pet was a boy. Despite the trope name, this can apply to pets other than dogs--in fact, it's just as common for it to involve [[CuteKitten kittens]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' has the episode ''Arthur's Pet Business'', based on the book of the same name where he takes care of many pets to prove he can care for a dog. One of them was a grouchy dog, who was later revealed to be pregnant as she gave birth to puppies. Arthur was allowed to keep one of them, naming him Pal.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'' has [[TheBully Roger]]'s RightHandCat acting sick (much to the dismay of his owner) until is discovered that it was just expecting kittens.
* In ''Literature/MillyMolly'', Milly's cat Marmalade and Molly's cat Tom Cat both go missing in the first episode "Monday", and when they find them, Marmalade has had kittens and it's heavily implied that Tom Cat is the dad.
* The sixth episode of Creator/{{Filmation}}'s cartoon series ''Lassie's Rescue Rangers'' is "The Imposters," wherein the Turners are apprehended for larcenies committed by look-alikes. After Lassie succeeds in exposing the imposters, the Turners are vindicated and freed. Upon returning home, however, they are greeted by a snarling Lassie. "Don't tell me you believe we're the culprits?" Fortunately, no: Lassie was being protective of her newborn collie pups. Which means Lassie did her heroics while a PregnantBadass.
* The ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "Spot Returns" has Plankton's pet amoeba getting fatter until he and Karen discover that Spot is pregnant. Afterwards, it gives birth to millions of amoeba puppies.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/DennisTheMenace'' epsiode, "Ruff to the Rescue", Mrs. Vandersnoot demands that the Mitchell family keep Ruff, Dennis' dog away from Muffy, her cat, even though Ruff has absolutely no malice towards her. One rainy night, both Ruff and Muffy go missing and Mrs. Vandersnoot accuses Ruff of chasing her. Dennis eventually finds Ruff inside a hollow tree in the park, looking after Muffy and her new litter of kittens.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "[[TheSimpsonsS6E20TwoDozenAndOneGreyhounds Two Dozen and One Greyhounds]]," the family adopts female racing greyhound She's the Fastest after she and family dog Santa's Little Helper mate at the dog track (during a race). Despite the fact that they embarrass Marge by constantly engaging in "you-know-what" in front of the house, she's as surprised as anyone else when She's the Fastest suddenly gives birth to ''25 puppies.''

* In one a very rare long-term arc in ''ComicBook/TheBeano'' during the early 1980s, ComicStrip/{{Dennis the Menace|UK}}'s dog Gnasher went missing for several weeks, with readers being encouraged to join in the search in real life. It finally turned out that he'd fallen in love with a poodle and had a litter of puppies with her. The only one who looked like him, Gnipper, subsequently joined the cast.

* In ''WesternAnimation/GiftOfTheNightFury'', all of the dragons on Berk get up and leave Berk without warning (with the exception of Toothless, who can't fly on his own), leaving the Hooligan Tribe at a loss of what's happened. When Meatlug, who Fishlegs had restrained before she had the chance to leave, flies off with Hiccup, he and the other riders discover what they were all leaving for. Hiccup finds the island where they all left, along with eggs and hatchling baby dragons, while the others find a bunch of unhatched gronkle eggs in the barn.

What? Wait a minute... is that... Tropey with a girl dog? And ''gasp'' [=PUPPIES=]! And look, [[CutenessProximity they're so cute]]!

* In one a very rare long-term arc in ''ComicBook/TheBeano'' during the early 1980s, ComicBook/{{Dennis the Menace|UK}}'s dog Gnasher went missing for several weeks, with readers being encouraged to join in the search in real life. It finally turned out that he'd fallen in love with a poodle and had a litter of puppies with her. The only one who looked like him, Gnipper, subsequently joined the cast.

* By the end of ''Literature/{{Madeline}}'s Rescue'', Genevieve, the dog that rescued Madeline and what the girls keep fighting over ownership of, gives birth to 11 puppies, giving each girl a dog of their own.

* In ''WesternAnimation/MillyMolly'', Milly's cat Marmalade and Molly's cat Tom Cat both go missing in the first episode "Monday", and when they find them, Marmalade has had kittens and it's heavily implied that Tom Cat is the dad.
* The sixth episode of Creator/{{Filmation}}'s cartoon series ''WesternAnimation/LassiesRescueRangers'' is "The Imposters," wherein the Turners are apprehended for larcenies committed by look-alikes. After Lassie succeeds in exposing the imposters, the Turners are vindicated and freed. Upon returning home, however, they are greeted by a snarling Lassie. "Don't tell me you believe we're the culprits?" Fortunately, no: Lassie was being protective of her newborn collie pups. Which means Lassie did her heroics while a PregnantBadass.

See YourTomcatIsPregnant if they incorrectly thought the pet was a boy.

* In ''Manga/GoldenKamuy'', NobleWolf Retar is friendly towards Asirpa, and used to live with her until he left her to live in the wild. He's later revealed to leave her because he found a mate, and had several puppies with her.

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* In one a very rare long-term arc in ''ComicBook/TheBeano'' during the early 1980s, ComicBook/DennisTheMenaceUK's dog Gnasher went missing for several weeks, with readers being encouraged to join in the search in real life. It finally turned out that he'd fallen in love with a poodle and had a litter of puppies with her. The only one who looked like him, Gnipper, subsequently joined the cast.

* Subverted in ''Film/AirBud World Pup'', where people witness Buddy falling hard for Molly, and notice him nipping off to see her before she has their puppies. Also, their respective owners, Josh and Emma, and their families are on friendly terms, so Josh never loses track of Buddy for very long.