calliecritturs
Posted : 12/14/2014 12:58:59 PM
@calliecritturs
@bunbun
1st let me state when I get paid I will take my puppy to the vet but until then Id like to run this past every1 here. I have a Italian mini greyhound chihuahua mix. She is a good dog and listens to the commands that I taught her (90% of the time) Last nite I took her out as usual and after she did her pee and poop and said to her "in" and she refused to come with me. After several attempts I picked her up and brought her inside. She then proceeded to pant, shake, look scared, ears back, pace back and forth and just wanted to go out. I took her back out 6 times in 1 hour and she did nothing, but everytime I brought her back inside this odd behavior started. At 3am I took her to the emergency vet who told me her anal sac was moderately full. He squeezed the sac to get rid of the stuff that was inside it and sent us off with 25mg of Rimadyl. He said everything was ok all blood tests are fine and that some dogs get this and need it to be squeezed every so often. I was assured there was no emergency. When we got home the odd behavior started again. When I woke up she was ok but soon after began the odd behavior once again. Mainly pacing and panting. and not listening. Its weird, she seems to go in and out of this state of weirdness. I asked the dr if a dog could be a "drama queen" and he said "yes" Is it possible that she is acting? SHe is a highly sensitive dog and was rescued by us because she was starving to death (ribs where showing and she hovered in a corner afraid of everything) But after slowly introducing her into a safe world she came out of her fears.
I think this is my fault because last nite when she attempted to run away from me I told her in a strong voice "bad girl" But the odd behavior was already there. Also After talking to her today and telling her she was a good girl I said to her "u want a treat"? She usually goes happy crazy when I say that but today I got no response nor would she take it from me, I gave it to my boyfriend who I live with and she took it from him. Any 1 every experience this with their puppy? She is about 10m old.
When you say 10m -- are you saying 10 months? just a puppy? Or was that a stray 'm' and she's 10 years old? How long have *you* had her? (You said she was in pretty bad shape when you got her so I'm wanting to be sure we don't make a wrong assumption.)
I'll be honest -- I really don't like that your vet reinforced the idea that she's a "drama queen" -- no, she's not "acting". Dogs just don't do that.
However -- dogs are very much creatures of what they have learned. You're looking at the behavior as tho there is no "cause" and there may be. There may have been a sound *inside the house** that in her history (maybe before she came to you) that preceded something really bad happening.
Just as an example - y husband and I adopted a very young pup (4 1/2 months old) who had been horribly abused But periodically she would become unbelievably agitated, and visibly terrified and we couldn't figure it out. Eventually one day while we were in the car she suddenly exhibited this same behavior and I noticed we were passing a particular make/model of car . I only happened to notice it because it was the same make/model/year as the people two houses down from us had.
Long story made short -- her abuser had driven that make/model car. She knew that once he came home she was at risk (this guy had killed her two siblings and just left the bodies lie in the creek next to where she was found, and he had broken Poilly's back -- "terror" is too mild a word really)
Every time she heard my neighbor's car go past, she got scared. My husband and I, now knowing what to look for, saw clearly she reacted to the sound of that make/model vehicle -- there was either a sound out of our hearing range, or a particular smell to the engine that she identified.
I would say it is more than possible that she suddenly heard a noise or smelled a smell that may have reminded her of her prior life. If you can think over what may have been new in your home, or maybe you just began to use something like a heater, or anything used for the first time since she joined your home, you may find what triggered the behavior.