For the last six weeks our dog has been driving us round the bend, from about 8.30 evening time till morning keeps pacing and panting,been to vets had tests all come back normal ,changed his diet nothing changing ,hardly getting any sleep its like torture.Dogs fit and healthy just don,t know what,s brought it on ,anybody else been through this.Even the vet is scratching his head.
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- Thread starter bobby18
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What is his routne during the day?
Breed?
Tim.243
Tim.243
Dogs a sprocker,gets walked hour in morning same in evening,does live in house had him 6years he was a rescue dog,problems only started six weeks ago been fine before that ,although he,s always been a bit hyper.No heating on yet,been fine with boiler sound over the years.
What the dogs, or something to take your mind off the problem......... lol
Is the house empty during the day, or are you around?
Try one of those DAP dog pheromone things. If it's stress related or hormonal it should calm him.
Ian
Ian
TOMMO.B
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Do you have a fox or a mink coming in to the garden. the smell would drive him mad. or does a neighbour have a bitch.
its a strange one. Good luck finding the cure.
My ferrets seem to bring pine marten to the garden at night and the dog whines to get out as he hears them or smells them.
ATB Tommy
its a strange one. Good luck finding the cure.
My ferrets seem to bring pine marten to the garden at night and the dog whines to get out as he hears them or smells them.
ATB Tommy
Age, breed, sex?
deerstalker.308
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Have you tried keeping him in a crate at night, one of ours gets very restless if she's not put away at night, I appreciate that's because it's what she's used to, but you never know, it might make him feel more secure.
I have an 8 year old bitch lab that does the same ? 2 hours dogging in and two minutes after being put back in the kennel, she is pacing and jumping at the door wanting out again ?
Back and forward all the bloody time .She was licking the kennel bars for a while and I thought it was a sore mouth or something , turns out she had chipped all her bottom row of teeth ? She still eats ok , picks up ok and has stopped licking the bars. But I am still none the wiser why she is fretting so much ?
Back and forward all the bloody time .She was licking the kennel bars for a while and I thought it was a sore mouth or something , turns out she had chipped all her bottom row of teeth ? She still eats ok , picks up ok and has stopped licking the bars. But I am still none the wiser why she is fretting so much ?
OK, thanks. The suggestions so far of fireworks or bitch in heat somewhere are, in the absence of anything from your vet's exam seem the most likely. If your dog was older I'd include senility as the behaviour fits. The suggestion of an adaptive collar is good. The sounds like anxiety, but it's an informed guess I'm afraid. Curious, I'd missed one of your posts earlier. If he's a rescue dog, then there's no knowing what his puppyhood was like. So this could be anxiety which classically builds up over time. The current feeling is that dogs learn to associate fear with a stimulus (noise). When they experience that stimulus, they know it must be frightening, therefore display anxiety signs. This reinforces the fear and it becomes a vicious circle. If he's OK with the gun, it could still be noise, just that outside, he can do something else. Try the adaptil, no side effects about £30 - worth it for a kip! 6 weeks is long for a bitch on heat, unless there's more than one!
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