Sad Puppy

Pipkin

Pipkin

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I`ve got a 7 month old Sprocker pup who is normally a nut case and never chills out, a couple of weeks ago he was attacked by a collie along with one of our lurchers, the pup sustained no injuries but was shook up, we took him to the vet because he wasnt himself, shaking, wimpering and off his food, they found no injuries etc and just said he was probably shook up.
Two weeks later and he finally comes back to normal jumping and running about and being a pain in the bum :D:p
On monday he seems to have taken 10 steps back and is shaking all the time, and cowers if you touch his back. he still wagging his tail and runs about a bit but he just looks sad and not himself.
the vet has said there are no injuries again and just give him lots of one on one (as we have 3 lurchers also)
Any ideas?
 
Might be a bit of superficial bruising or even 'memory' or trigger of what happened when you do touch him in a certain area.
Keep upbeat and positive and don't feel sorry for him, they pick up on vibes so easily and if you rush to comfort him, it will reinforce that he was right to cower and shake and be scared and it will perpetuate the behaviour, so hard as it is, ignore wimpy behaviour and put your smiley face on :)
Give him confidence.
 
It would also be a good idea to get him checked over by a chiropractor to rule out any back problems that the vet missed (quite a common occurrence in my experience :rolleyes:) but I do agree with CC that it is scarily easy to reinforce an unwanted behaviour...
 
ahhhaaa i wonder if thats it then, he had loads and loads of one to one when it first happened and then when he was back to normal we went back to normal and stopped with all the mothering..hmmmm clever doggie :D
Will give vet a ring for a contact number for chiropractor

Thanks :)
 
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