deerstalker.308
Well-Known Member
No, not in the out of control mental untrained sense!
So out 8 yr old lab bitch has suddenly gone very odd.
She has developed a totally irrational fear of our rugs/floors around the house. She looks at them as though they’re lava fields, or crevasses that will swallow her whole. She won’t come upstairs at all now (she was allowed by invite before and loved it if the opportunity presented). She just looks stressed by life, today on a walk for no apparent reason she jolted on the lead cutting in front of me and nearly ran into the road, no reason to it whatsoever, (road was quiet, wouldn’t have mattered anyway but the behaviour is not normal for her)
Some background info.
She was always a very hormonal dog and whenever a season had passed you could bet your bottom dollar she would go off her food (acting like you were poisoning her), for a week or two, and dig the odd den in the garden but nothing more sinister.
Back in June last year she had a litter of pups (not her first) and we kept one of the pups. Now it’s fair to say said pup does harass her mum somewhat and I do wonder if this may be the cause?
She was spayed back in January. And since then, up to this point, we’ve had no abnormal behaviour.
This is all new. She doesn’t look happy in herself a lot of the time, seems to have a very concerned look on her face although is currently chewing an antler very happily as if to spite me writing this post!!
I think a trip to the vets is inevitable although what they’ll be able to ascertain I don’t know, anyone else experienced this? Starting to worry something neurologically very wrong here? Going to get my wife to take her out with her to give her some quiet time away from her pup to see if that helps, and clearly will get our vets opinion, but genuinely a little concerned for her.
So out 8 yr old lab bitch has suddenly gone very odd.
She has developed a totally irrational fear of our rugs/floors around the house. She looks at them as though they’re lava fields, or crevasses that will swallow her whole. She won’t come upstairs at all now (she was allowed by invite before and loved it if the opportunity presented). She just looks stressed by life, today on a walk for no apparent reason she jolted on the lead cutting in front of me and nearly ran into the road, no reason to it whatsoever, (road was quiet, wouldn’t have mattered anyway but the behaviour is not normal for her)
Some background info.
She was always a very hormonal dog and whenever a season had passed you could bet your bottom dollar she would go off her food (acting like you were poisoning her), for a week or two, and dig the odd den in the garden but nothing more sinister.
Back in June last year she had a litter of pups (not her first) and we kept one of the pups. Now it’s fair to say said pup does harass her mum somewhat and I do wonder if this may be the cause?
She was spayed back in January. And since then, up to this point, we’ve had no abnormal behaviour.
This is all new. She doesn’t look happy in herself a lot of the time, seems to have a very concerned look on her face although is currently chewing an antler very happily as if to spite me writing this post!!
I think a trip to the vets is inevitable although what they’ll be able to ascertain I don’t know, anyone else experienced this? Starting to worry something neurologically very wrong here? Going to get my wife to take her out with her to give her some quiet time away from her pup to see if that helps, and clearly will get our vets opinion, but genuinely a little concerned for her.
